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To: Sequoyah101
they did gulp hard and bought the World Books and paid them out and bought the year book for updates for almost 40 years.

Amen.

I still have several volumes but they're stashed away with a similar set from turn of last century, a Conrad anthology, and "Paddle to the Sea".

Scary that they've been replaced by Wikipedia, "Illustrated Novels" (comics), and electric gizmos. More scary that most of those gizmos involve either emoticons or war games.

74 posted on 10/29/2016 10:18:10 AM PDT by norton
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To: norton

Yes, that is scary about the junk gizmos and the electronic part is scary. So much knowledge is stashed in Zeroes and Ones. So easy to be wiped out.

We hold on to our Foxfire series of books and many other how to things like the Merck Manual and the Physicans Desk Reference, Civil Engineer’s and Mechanical Engineer’s reference and such other similar things.


75 posted on 10/29/2016 10:51:55 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (It feels like we have exchanged our dreams for survival. We just have a few days that don't suck.)
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