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Originally Posted by djchameleon
My grandmother had an entire set of them. The only crap part is that every decade or so you have to buy the whole entire set over again because there is new information in it. Those bad boys were expensive. I believe they stopped printing them in 2010. I could be wrong though.
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I remember
The Joy of Knowledge and
The Tree of Knowledge, two encyclopaedia series that built up week by week. One (
The Joy of Knowledge) was hardcover volumes on different subjects (The Earth, History, Natural Science, Astronomy etc) and the other, which I found better put together, gave you pages from each section each week, colour coded, which you placed in the appropriate section of the big binder, so that eventually it all built up into one large encyclopedia.
Needless to say, I never finished collecting either of them. But I do still have the twenty or so volumes I collected of
The Joy of Knowledge. Good stuff.