Stan Shebs wrote:
Steve Bennett wrote:
Inspired by this thread, I just bought myself a legitimate copy of the 2004 Encyclopaedia Britannica on CD. For $1 AUD. Woot.
I bought one of those a while back. The most fun part has been comparing articles to their 1911 versions, and seeing how little of the text has changed - a few word/syntax modernizations, plus most articles have had their sources and references entirely deleted(!) . So it's been useful to me mostly as a cross-check against our 1911-based text. But I tell you, if that CD is the best they can do, EB is doomed.
I can understand why they would delete the references. Showing nothing but pre-1911 references could reduce their credibility. ;-)
Ec