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![]() ![]() Yet, she mourns, “it’s like losing a friend.” She has to be as the assistant director of the public library in Louisville, Kentucky. Nancye Browning put it this way: The encyclopedia, printed every two years, “doesn’t keep up” in today’s era. The giant books intimidated from their lofty perch on shelves. Even in families more prone to quote Archie Bunker than Britannica, the massive 128-pound sets made Americans feel smarter. They grew up with the Encyclopedia Britannica, wrote history reports from them. These are intellectuals who log on to Facebook every day, check in on foursquare and tweet. The Britannica mourners weren’t a bunch of old fogeys stuck in their ways, living in denial about the digital revolution. Opinion: Why Encyclopedia Britannica mattered Even those who lamented the loss – Is nothing sacred in this world anymore?! – scratched their heads, pondered the thought and then realized it had been years, maybe decades, since they’d opened the leather-bound books with gold-embossed lettering.Īt water coolers across the country, librarians whispered, as they tend to do: Did you hear the news? It’s that last sentiment that’s so painstakingly true. They were still printing the Encyclopaedia Britannica?.Am considering the $1,395 Britannica “Final edition” in case this whole electronic/online thing doesn’t work out.After 244 years, Encyclopaedia #Britannica to stop publishing print edition.On Twitter, thousands chimed in at #Britannica: ![]()
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