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Rise and Fall of Encyclopedias

Patented: History of Inventions

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The Value of Hanging on to Encyclopedia Books

People can't get rid of them fast enough, which I think is a real shame. Charity shops won't really take them because they take up too much space there and they don't sell. You can't really burn them because that's the... Or an awful thing you can never burn books. So what you do with them, you put them on eBay and you sell them, you know, it is sort of the fight to the bottom. And yeah, so I picked some up for ridiculous price. The nicest set that I've got are Botanic volumes from 2012 - my poor Toyota has never forgiven me.

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