Path: cdrom.com!barrnet.net!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!news.uh.edu!uuneo.neosoft.com!orleans-a3.NeoSoft.COM!rayjones From: rayjones@new-orleans.neosoft.com (Ray Jones) Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom.reviews Subject: Re: Britannica on CD! Date: Tue, 2 Aug 1994 02:27:37 Organization: NeoSoft Internet Services +1 713 684 5969 Lines: 19 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: orleans-a3.neosoft.com X-Newsreader: Trumpet for Windows [Version 1.0 Rev A] In article uad1123@tdc.dircon.co.uk (Graeme Lyall) writes: >From: uad1123@tdc.dircon.co.uk (Graeme Lyall) >Subject: Re: Britannica on CD! >Date: 31 Jul 1994 13:59:57 +0100 >OK now that we know that Britannica is available in a text version >(at whatever price) ... how does it compare? Is it any better >than Grolier? Is the hype really justified? Well, most people view Brittannica as the "Encyclopaedia of Encyclopedias" so and the cd version is the complete text of the 32 volume set, so you decide. Seriously, I don't have $1000 to spend on it to check, but I'd say it is worth it if you can afford it. I already have a "printed version" and can't see the need (at present) to spend the money for a cd version as well.