If you want to be able to read all of the Encyclopædia Britannica you have to buy a subscription to the online service or acquire the CD-ROM disc. Now would be a good time for someone to make available the last version in the public domain – the 11th edition – but as far as I am aware only the first volume is digitised and that only in “flat” plaintext form [no longer true! see here]. The 6.5m word Columbia Encyclopedia is available in a number of places as is Encarta but neither is a real substitute…
9 August 2001
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