I'm gonna ask the question....

[David Morris]

These general encyclopedias really are dust-collectors, bound sets on
faux leather w/ gold printing that serve to make home shelving appear
pretty/serious.  Their info becomes stale before taken out of their
boxes.

The Catholic Encyclopedia might have better staying power as a
catalogue of religious, but really, they would have to get stale also,
in light of ever-expanding perspectives on the past.

On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 2:55 PM, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net> wrote:
> On 4/14/2011 2:50 PM, David Morris wrote:
>>
>> The online version frees up the hard copy:
>>
>> http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/tag/future/
>
> I had that version of the Britannica but finally threw it out.  A friend's mom had given it to her and it ended up gathering dust in my library.