Rise and Fall of Encyclopedias
Patented: History of Inventions
The Smell of Encyclopedias
"I feel like I've been lied to. My space encyclopedias, for example, it reliably informs me that the first American in space was John Glenn," he says. "It wasn't John Glenn, it was Alan Shepard." He's got about 80 something piled up and is trying to count them at the end of the book. 'How many do you have? Oh God. Are they worth anything?' his son asks him.
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