What is your favorite encyclopedia?

submitted by drummyfish from self.books

I recently got into buying old second hand print encyclopedias, you can get them extremely cheap (no one wants them anymore cause Wikipedia) while being of much greater quality than Wikipedia or anything else on the web and containing little to no censorship. Does anyone else here share this passion? What are your favorite encyclopedias? While Britannica 11th edition is the most epic one AND is in the public domain, for casual reading I personally quite enjoy many single volume ones such as Larouse Desk Reference Encyclopedia (1995) and Columbia Encyclopedia (2000), they do a very good job at providing nice big-picture overviews of all areas of knowledge.

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[–]TaseAFeminist4Jesus 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I have a set of Encyclopedia Britannica (15th Edition) in my office. I like it a lot.

Was always a fan of single-volume encyclopedias, too.

[–]gardella 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I love my set of Britannica, 1962 printing. They cover facts and not the whim of the elites. If you are looking for true facts stick to ones before the 1963 coup. I also have a reprint of the first edition of the Brittanica with all three volumes.

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We need to bring back real encyclopedias. A physical dictionary belongs in every home as well.

[–]drummyfish[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I just started thinking about a collaborative project for making one, with enough people it wouldn't be that hard to make a nice, uncensored, free public domain (CC0) one volume encyclopedia in plain HTML on some git hosting site, it could be both electronic and printed (could be easily converted to LaTeX and made into a physical book). If it was public domain and non commercial, it wouldn't have to bow to any publishers or reviewers and could stay truly uncensored and independent. Of course it wouldn't aim to compete with Wikipedia by its size, it should rather aim for a high quality oldschool style book. If anyone feels like stealing this idea, feel free :)

[–]anthonyhowells11 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

When I was studying at nursing school, the blog 'Nurse's Chronicle' https://www.nursingpaper.com/blog/levels-of-nursing/ has been my go-to source for nursing paper inspiration, none of the encyclopedias helped me at that time. It made the process less stressful and more rewarding.