[WikiEN-l] (semi-OT) What to do with old but not old enough encyclopedias?

Thu Nov 16 11:16:33 UTC 2006

On 11/16/06, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> A friend of mine has a 1980 set of Encyclopedia Britannica he's trying
> to get rid of. They're not going to be public domain in many of our
> lifetimes and the information will be out of date enough to be
> misleading in many ways - they would not be appropriate for a school.
>
> I see there's another 1980 EB on eBay right now that's had no bids.
> Nobody Cares (tm).
>
> Your suggestions are welcomed ...

While not PD for a long time, he could scan and auto-OCR it for copyvio checks.

And, of course, I would buy it for a reasonable amount of money.

Mathias