A monument disappears

After 244 years reference book firm Encyclopaedia Britannica has decided to stop publishing its famous and weighty 32-volume print edition.

Read : http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-1736269.

A monument disappears. The Encyclopaedia Britannica was arguably the best and the most reliable encyclopedia in the world.

Many people, including myself,  dreamed of owning one. But I never decided to invest in one. When  I was younger  I had no money to spend on it.  And while I grew older all paper encyclopedias were gliding away in quasi irrelevance.

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