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Rarest Kind of Best 
Farewell Britannica – End of Empire
15 Mar 2012 1 Comment
by Kim in Commentary, Technology Tags: nonfiction, reference
In an inevitable yet still somewhat shocking move, Encyclopedia Britannica has announced that they will no longer be issuing their encyclopedia in book form.
I don’t have any fond memories of leafing through the actual Britannica as a child – our shelves were inhabited by the more prosaic World Book Encyclopedia…
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