R.I.P. Encyclopaedia Britannica

[Viking]

244 years. 2010 is the last edition.

[falafel]

Last print edition, or last edition ever?

[myboynoah]

244 years. 2010 is the last edition.

Killed by the Internet.

I hope Al Gore is happy tonight. Maybe he's getting a massage.

[Color Me Badd Fan]

Before I knew what plagiarism was, I lifted the World Book Encyclopedia's entry on Richard Nixon for my 4th grade President report. I'm not sure exactly how I ended up with Richard Nixon. The kids got to choose by alphabetical order and lucky bastards with names staring with A and B got Abraham Lincoln and George Washington. By the time it got to me, the pickings were slim (there were only 40 presidents at the time and my class had about 30 students).

[Omaha 680]

I'm surprised they have lasted this long.

Our main reference books for reports in grade school in the 80s were my mom's old World Book Encyclopedias from the 60s. Nothing like doing a report on the solar system using a book that was published before we landed on the moon.

[PaloAltoCougar]

I'm surprised they have lasted this long.

Our main reference books for reports in grade school in the 80s were my mom's old World Book Encyclopedias from the 60s. Nothing like doing a report on the solar system using a book that was published before we landed on the moon.

Too intellectual. We had Golden Book Encyclopedias that were purchased volume by volume at Safeway. "This month, Safeway shoppers, L-M!!!"

[Viking]

We were too poor for the E.B. and had the cheap world book's instead.

When I was 11, I read the entire A-Z during a single summer. I loved the write-ups on countries, in particular.

[grapevine]

I used to read the World Books all the time. Interesting when old editions came to the di. Who buys them. Interesting Encarta is no longer online and was the premeir online encyclopedia. I guess Wikipedia did them in. I guess the World Book is still printing.

[USUC]

We were too poor for the E.B. and had the cheap world book's instead.

When I was 11, I read the entire A-Z during a single summer. I loved the write-ups on countries, in particular.

I never read novels as a kid (or as an adult), but I would spend hours upon hours with my face buried in World Books. Every time I heard a name, event, or "thing" I was unaware of, I would look it up immediately. I went through a phase where I was obsessed with the origin of every fruit. I loved World Books.

[wuapinmon]

Borges is weeping in heaven.

[Art Vandelay]

Leroy died? When? How? I hope the police are questioning Bugs.

[HauteCoug]

We were too poor for the E.B. and had the cheap world book's instead.

When I was 11, I read the entire A-Z during a single summer. I loved the write-ups on countries, in particular.

I loved those books!

[Commando]

I used to spend lazy summer days in the old World Book... particularly the Atlas studying the topography of the Moon.

Wow. Now that I type that out, that kind of explains a lot.

[RobinFinderson]

I used to spend lazy summer days in the old World Book... particularly the Atlas studying the topography of the Moon.

Wow. Now that I type that out, that kind of explains a lot.

Same here. Interesting what cultural touchstones define different generations. Was this a Mormon thing?

[wuapinmon]

I got called "Encyclopedia Brown" in 4th and 5th grade because my teachers would often send me to the library to read by myself. Apparently, a bored Mac distracts other people who are still working on their assignments.