"Beliavsky" <beliavsky@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> 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).
>
> 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.
I read somewhere once that out-of-date dictionaries and encyclopedias
contain potentially dangerous information and should be discarded. I did
end
up throwing away a dictionary from the 1930's that was about a foot thick.
:-/
Although I enjoyed the ones we had when I was a child, I would never buy
them now, and certainly would not consider it an investment, since their
value decreases rapidly.
Let your child use the ones at the library or school, in addition to the
internet.
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