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   > CP wrote --   
   >> He's more into science fact books, reading these mini encyclopedia type   
   >> compendiums of animal or other Nature facts.   
   > We had an Encyclopedia Britannica, c. 1948, and I think over time I read   
   > most of the the like 26 volumes.  Not every single story, not every single   
   > word, but I would open a book and flip through to find something that caught   
   > my attention.   
   > Over the years and a series of moves those were lost along the way.   
      
   Dag! My Mom had bought the 1967 Silver Title Edition on the occasion of my    
   birth. (they were leather-bound & embossed with sterling silver lettering)   
      
   I did as you, & would use them as my go-to boredom relief, just grab one,   
   open  it, read something, follow the "sees also" into multiple volumes.   
      
   When I gahad to find a fact for school, instead of, as my peers, just finding    
   that sentence, I'd read the context, chase down other related articles & know    
   100+ things instead of just one. I still have a lot of that info in my brain,    
   but my mom sold the set cheaply, after all the kids had moved out (I wished I    
   had it, I'd start at page 1, vol. 1, & read through the entire thing, & time   
   it then challenge the world to beat me! (& be sure to get some sort of token   
   from  Britannica for promotional efforts--maybe the latest set & yearbooks(my   
   mom had 20 years of the yearbooks, too.)   
      
   We had the World Book, too, but I didn't  bother with that -- once I was in   
   the EB, I was not going to read from lesser. . .   
      
   I like reading the OED, too, but no way can I afford the full 11-volume set   
   of  tomes. I see Z-Lib is lacking in reference works. I uploaded an older    
   Physician's Desk Reference, as they had none!   
      
   Maybe I'll put in a search for the full OED, & hopefully get it for my phone    
   for light reading while riding buses. . .   
      
   They do a grand job on etymology for each word.   
      
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