Encyclopaedia Britannica

• Belly35

  

  Encyclopaedia Britannica
  
  We are doing a little house clearing.
  My wife father years ago (1971) gave us two.. not one but two sets of Encyclopaedia Britannica. I don’t know what edition they are but will find out. Whatever they are we have two different editions I’m sure. One set has 28 books and the other set has maybe 26 book. Nice books leather binding, deep red w/ gold lettering great for display in the book case.
  
  What the hell to do with them?
  
  Give then to a library, sell on ebay, give to OC member… no sell to an OC member
  
  One thing I do know they are heavy...
• OneBuckeye

  

  Kindling.
• j_crazy

  

  i also have many leather bound books....
  
  
• 4cards

  

  ...I remember when I was a kid seeing some guy going door to door selling these. Poor fucker would have to walk for miles and miles to make (1) sale a day if he was lucky.
• Bigred1995

  

  You won't get much for selling them (unless they're a first edition I believe), because 1971 really wasn't that long ago. The coolness factor of being able to look through them and seeing what's changed since is all they're good for right now! I'd imagine most if not all libraries already has a copy. If I were you, I'd think about keeping them in your family. You nor your kids may have any use for them, but imagine the kick your grand and great grand kids will have looking through them. Being able to see what things we got wrong, the things we got right and things still unknown. And if things continue on it's current path, it may be an event for them to see an actual book! The pain here will be storage, but that's what I would do.
• I Wear Pants

  Honestly burn them. Most libraries won't even take them anymore and neither will Goodwill a lot of the time.
• Sonofanump

  Internetz (or Wikipedia) has made these useless.
• THE4RINGZ

  

  Donate them to a good cause.
• cbus4life

  DO NOT give them to a library.
• I Wear Pants

  Make some shelves.
  
  http://lifehacker.com/#!368814/diy-invisible-floating-bookshelf
  
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• ts1227

  

  I prefer Encyclopedia Dramatica, even though it no longer exists in any useful form.
• 4cards

  

  THE4RINGZ;747447 wrote:Donate them to a good cause.

  ...send them to Andy Dufresne % Shawshank Prison
• Belly35

  

  I have a better idea .... Belly idea
  
  I&#8217;m going to cut off the leather binding and make a pairs, swim suit or shorts&#8230; New Trend wear what you know on your ass
  
  Use the paper to wipe my ass and those that come over can read in bathroom and dispose of their knowledge at the same time
• UANyg

  i'll take a set for free
• FatHobbit

  

  I have three sets from when I was a kid that I keep for the nostalgia.
• password

  

  Is this the childrens edition or the adult version of Encyclopaedia Britannica?