![]() ![]() (And thank you Mom and Dad, for letting me have that pleasure.) (Which was a challenge before I could read or alphabetize!) I gather encyclopedia diving was a hobby shared by other bookworms too. From infancy, I would happily sit beside the bookcase and create small mountains of volumes, flipping through the photos and diagrams, trying to remember where to find my favorites. ![]() My parents had an old, post-war set of World Book Encyclopedias. The Web site is continuously updated, it’s much more expansive and it has multimedia.” “Some people will feel sad about it and nostalgic about it. “It’s a rite of passage in this new era,” Jorge Cauz, the president of Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc., a Chicago-based company, said in an interview. The last edition of the encyclopedia will be the 2010 edition, a 32-volume set that weighs in at 129 pounds and includes new entries on global warming and the Human Genome Project. Here’s how the NYT article described the shift: For comparison, here is Encyclopaedia Britannica’s article on itself. ![]() To illustrate one reason for its decline, here is an article on Encyclopaedia Britannica from modern-day rival Wikipedia. ![]()
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