Since the Know it All book was published, a number of people have expressed an interest in reading the entire Britannica print edition. Over at Reading the EB, Andy Ratto is blogging his experience.
Any other bloggers working their way through the EB?
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I see lower down in your blog you refer to yourself as working for EB. I’m glad you noticed my blog, because like Jacobs, I’m hoping that I can intersperse my own reading with some conversations of various people of note, like someone at the Britannica, or some of the Nobel Laureates here at Berkeley.
Once I get farther along in the reading and the blogging, I’ll be contacting you again to see if I can find someone who would be interested in talking to me.
Comment by Andy R. — July 19, 2005 @ 8:50 am
>Once I get farther along in the reading and
>the blogging, I’ll be contacting you again
>to see if I can find someone who would be
>interested in talking to me.
Great Andy, you know where to find me.
Actually I’m working internally to get some interesting stuff set up inspired in part by your troubles getting an inexpensive copy to read from.
Comment by Administrator — July 19, 2005 @ 4:27 pm
Reading the Britannica
Andy Ratto is reading the entire Encyclopedia Britannica and blogging about it. Quite unpretentiously and charmingly. He’s including references he doesn’t understand. E.g., on page 29 of the first volume there’s a reference to the “pangolin.” Andy…
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