Am looking for a compact paperback encyclopedia but am struggling to find one available in the UK. I used to have the Hutchison compact, but believe that was last printed in the 90s…
Do you specifically want it on paper, or do you just care about compact and offline? I mean, Kiwix will do offline Wikipedia on a phone, which is gonna store a lot more data than a full-size printed set in a more-compact form factor than a single book.
It’s for a retreat that will have no electrics. Hence paper only. Paperback preferably.
Well, if I go to Amazon and filter the encyclopedia category to paperback and then sort by ascending price to push the multivolume sets to the end, I get a lot of special-purpose and children’s encyclopedias.
The first general-purpose one I see is this:
https://www.amazon.com/Concise-Columbia-Encyclopedia-Paul-Legasse/dp/0395751845/138-3217902-2525925
That’s new, but looking at the copyright date, I think that’s it’s from the 1990s as well, just still being printed. Are you wanting just a current print or also something with current articles?
I’d print Wikipedia if I had the resources ;)
Yes, current articles or, say, last 5 years maybe?
I’m looking for one too, hope you won’t mind me taking a seat and see what others may suggest because, well, the full set of the Britannica would be a tad too cumbersome ;)
