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Encyclopedia Brittanica
I have a 1980s set of these that I want to move off of my bookcase. I know everything is online but I'd hate to just recycle them as scrap. Maybe they can be repurposed?
Any tips?
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I'd hate to see them scrapped, is there a retirement community nearby? I bet the residents would really love to have a set like that.
Last year i was visiting my parents and i saw the encyclopedia of history set on the bookshelves that I read when I was a kid. They got one book a month and that was a big deal as there wasn't such thing as disposable income then. They were a gift to my three brothers and I but IIRC i was the only one who took an interest in them. I think I was about 9 or 10. I remember sitting in the living room, reading them from cover to cover many times. I picked one up last year and opened it and remembered reading the same details and seeing the same pictures as i did long ago. I let my parents know that I don't care about inheritance but I'd really like those books when the time comes. I tried to explain to my wife and kids how cool those books were but they just rolled their eyes. They can keep their i-phones. Last edited by sammyg2; 08-22-2018 at 02:51 PM.. |
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wonder if a local elementary school would take them?
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08-22-2018, 03:01 PM
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I have the world book, 1959.
Someone will want it. |
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08-22-2018, 03:07 PM
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The reason the school doesn't want it is "facts" have changed since then.
It is that very reason that some one else will want it, it is interesting to compare older to newer entries on the same thing. |
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08-22-2018, 03:20 PM
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I bough their "great books of western world"...
Wife wants me to get rid of the... not on my watch... she is probably afraid on me reading a bunch of freaks like Plato, Aristotle, Plutarch, and Thomas Aquinas.
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08-22-2018, 03:28 PM
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They just aren't worth anything, you can look up on line quicker and better. I have a friend with three sets of encyclopedias in his garage he has been saving for years, now he finds out nobody will even take them.
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08-22-2018, 03:33 PM
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Donate to Goodwill, the Library, or give away at the yard sale.
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If I had a house, I'd try to talk my wife into letting me get a set for nostalgia's sake. I had a set of encyclopedia and 10-20 years of world book when I was a kid. I'd love to leaf through a set, but we have downsized and don't have the room.
It's a shame that these are basically trash now.
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I'm thinking the only people who will appreciate them and still see value in them are older folks, greatest generation-type. People who would rather read a book that look something up on a 'puter. And they don't much care for the "new revised" facts, they prefer history the way it was.
Hence the retirement community thing. |
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We had a World Book set. Mid 1960's I used it quite a bit.
The Human Body section had clear pages printed with various body systems. First sheet was the skeleton. Then a page of muscle. Blood circulation and so on. I could build a body page by page |
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08-22-2018, 03:40 PM
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Id put them on craigslist for free. Atleast then if someone takes the time to come and get them you know they are wanted. If you donate them somewhere they will most likely get thrown out.
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08-22-2018, 03:43 PM
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Upcycle them into something useful?
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I gave my World book encyclopedia set to a local coffee shop, just to dress up their bookshelves when they opened up a new location.
They were happy to have them. |
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08-22-2018, 04:32 PM
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I have a set of leather bound on India paper Briticana's 1912 edition. It the best edition published, never to be replicated as many of the scholars perished during WW1. The scholarship is impeccable. They are collectible, last I looked about 1200.
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My childhood worldbook showed the glory of super-sonic transport. I loved that page. Airplane shaped like a dart. Might have promised flying cars as well...
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08-22-2018, 05:03 PM
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The thing is that any encyclopedia of any date will have good articles on just about everything up to that date. School instructors didn't allow encyclopedias as references for papers submitted. Now I bet they wish students would actually pull from them instead of using the Net for everything.
Copy and paste while changing the order of the words and substituting adjectives and adverbs to beat the scanners. |
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