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Re:I bought the only physical encyclopedia still in print, a... by jhbadger on Friday June 09, 2023 @01:47PM (#36261353)
F&W had a bad reputation (I had a copy as well as a child, for the same reasons, purchased a volume at a time at the grocery store), but it wasn't that bad. Microsoft eventually purchased the rights to it and many of the articles from their 1990s CD-ROM Encyclopedia (Encarta) were either taken directly from F&W or only slightly edited.
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Re:I bought the only physical encyclopedia still in print, a... by wolverine876 on Saturday June 10, 2023 @12:15AM (#36267544)
> F&W had a bad reputation

What was its reputation?

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Re:I bought the only physical encyclopedia still in print, a... by jhbadger on Saturday June 10, 2023 @11:05PM (#36277586)
That it wasn't a "serious" encyclopedia, probably due to its low cost. Another comment mentioned being allowed to use Encyclopedia Britannica and no other encyclopedia in school because it supposedly was the "most authoritative". It also was the most expensive while F&W was the cheapest (World Book was in between in cost).
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