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[inked-oak.insanejournal.com]

Today is a sad day for the world of knowledge.

After 244 years, the printed Encyclopedia Britannica will no longer exist. Sure, there will still be the digital editions and all, but it's just not the same experience. Not the smell of the pages, the careful illuminations, the weight of all that information right there in your hands... It was always an investment in learning, solid and dependable. I'm going to miss it.

Comments

[womanontop.insanejournal.com]

That's so sad. I had one of those growing up. True, I used to put them on chairs so I could reach the high shelf more often than I read them, but still

[winter-queen.insanejournal.com]

A foolish move really. Technology is not always reliable. Hard copies are necessary in case of electronic malfunction.

[ieter-amumon.insanejournal.com]

Oh, now that is a shame. I've owned a few of those sets myself.

I don't think we've been properly introduced yet. Dr. Galen Oram, at your service. Though, around here, I'm better known as Asclepius.

[blackdestroyer.insanejournal.com]

Man, no one cares about that shit anymore. Too clunky. Shit's changed now. Get with it, old man.

[roseredheart.insanejournal.com]

Oh, that is too bad. My parents have a set of those.

[littlebithorny.insanejournal.com]

I feel your nerd loss, man, I really do, but it's not a business model they could keep at right now.

[speakswithdead.insanejournal.com]

Any loss of knowledge is a tragedy. I had a considerable library years back, who only knows what's happened to it now.