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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;+VGO.DVCKS, post: 4657213, member: 110504&quot;]Great story.&nbsp; I grew up with a complete Americana, from the year after my elder brother was born.&nbsp; (Thank you --euphemism alert-- an example of tactical rather than strategic thinking.)&nbsp; Years later, at a local independent bookshop, I found a complete Britannica from the late 1940&#039;s.&nbsp; (Well, even then, minus the index --found separately, a little later, from within a year or so of the rest of the set.)&nbsp; Even with that one, it was like, Okay, the content is going to be Utterly Useless for much besides the Humanities; as such, from a relentlessly Eurocentric perspective.&nbsp; --Eurocentric in terms of the <i>scope</i> of the content, rather than something as amorphous as the &#039;tone.&#039; But if you lowered your expectations accordingly --and had room for it in the apartment-- it was Solid Gold.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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