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Beliavsky says...
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>On Jul 16, 11:08=A0am, Penny Gaines <pe...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> Beliavsky wrote:
>> > When I was a kid about 30 years ago my parents bought for me the
World
>> > Book set of encyclopedias. It was fairly common for the families we
>> > knew. I used to just browse volumes of the encyclopedia sometimes.
>> > What do people think now about making such an investment, where there
>> > are alternatives such as Wikipedia and other online encyclopedias
(for
>> > a fee).
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>> My children tend to go straight to google (and then get frustrated when
>> they can't find what they want). =A0This appears to be encouraged by
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>> schools.
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>> We do have an extensive collection of textbooks and encyclopedias, but
>> they don't seem to turn to them in the same way as I did when I was a
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>> > Steve Sailer wrote an essay comparing Wikipedia and Brittanica
>> >http://isteve.blogspot.com/2008/07/real-problem-with-wikipedia.html,
>> > asserting the former is dull.
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>> Hmmm, I hope you don't take this the wrong way, but Beliavsky, you are
>> allowed to have your own opinions, without backing them up with some
>> blogger or journalist :-) . =A0
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>I know.
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>> You do have a tendancy to rely on other people's ideas: I'd like to
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>what *you* think about an issue.
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>My choices of sources *do* reflect what I think about various issues.
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You got that right.
Banty
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