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

Mon Nov 20 11:51:51 UTC 2006

On 16/11/06, 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 lifetimes and the information will be out of date enough to be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.

These have been claimed ... by my brother-in-law ;-D

> I see there's another 1980 EB on eBay right now that's had no bids.
> Nobody Cares (tm).

Well, at least one!

There must be sets like this around - old enough to be obsolete and
unwanted, almost free with postage. Mathias, you may be able to find
such a set from the UK if the US or Australia is too expensive ...

- d.