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You're listening to Away with Words. I'm Grant Barrett.

And I'm Martha Barnett.

I grew up in a house that was lined with bookcases.

And there was something so solid and so ponderous and almost august about the big encyclopedias on them.

In our house, we had World Book and Childcraft and Comptons, and

later we got the Encyclopedia Britannica. And I was thinking about those books that I no longer

own and that I miss because of a recent blog post by the writer Nicholas Carr. Grant, as you

know, the Encyclopedia Britannica has ceased publication of its print version.

It's going to be strictly online only.

And Carr points out that while that's great, we're also going to be losing something.

We're going to be losing those handsome gilded spines, you know, those volumes on the shelf that look so imposing and inviting at the same time.

And specifically, we're going to be missing those pairs of index words that tell you where the volume begins and ends.

And I want you to just listen to the names of the first few volumes of the 15th edition of Encyclopedia Britannica

and just let your mind drift. See what you imagine.

Ooh, okay. Okay. This is almost mind drift. See what you imagine. Okay.

This is almost going to be like a poetry reading.

Volume 1. Accounting Architecture.

Volume 2. Arctic Biosphere.

Volume 3. Birds. Chess.

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