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Re: WEB. Better? Cheaper? More desirable?



At 15:20 10/24/97 -0400, you wrote:

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The costs of textbooks was discussed recently. I just bought the 1997
edition of Encyclopedia Britanica (32 volumes on one CD-ROM) for $100.
The cost of 32 books is $1500, ten times more than the regular price of
the CD-ROM. That little disk came with a powerful search engine....
Ludwik Kowalski


I have a 14th edition and a 15th edition.

I advocate rescuing used copies of this prime resource
whose data has a rather long half-life but I agree that
a search engine is a wonderful research aid.

I was given a 'Great Books' uniform edition by my wife...
They are not the original leather-bound printing -
but I conceive of them as my most valuable accessions in
respect of their content which it has
been my privilege to share with this list.

Brian
brian whatcott <inet@intellisys.net>
Altus OK