A many people on this list all know this by heart but since this is testimonial time -- and not all of you know me that extensively -- very briefly:
First modern encyclopaedia me and my sister had was a very cheaply produced set called Combi, written in Finnish, with 5 colour printed volumes, and two with mostly linedrawing thumbails, with very short articles. Used to take those on our family sailing trips, long and short. Soon had read the coloiur printed volumes of what we might call featured articles from front to back, several times. Just last year, shed a few quite nostalgic tears recently after going through the effects of my recently deceased mother, but for involved reasons which I won't go into had to throw them into the trash, wondering if that was only set of that still existing. We did have older encylopaedias, and their coverage *was* both more interesting and very their treatement much more in depth, if for natural reasons far from up to date. But to Ecnyclopaedia Britannica. I own the set that was printed and published 1974-1975. As a child I would choose the library I skipped class at for two things. The library had to have either a good set of Plato's Dialogues or Britannica, or ideally both -- constrained somewhat by opening hours, in my choice. I do believe I have consulted the print EB in the last year or two, with good results, on subjects where Wikipedia still has notable lacunae, notably the arts. Those instances are however mostly notable for their scarceness. -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]] _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
