Britannica is the oldest English language encyclopedia that is
still in print. Originally published starting in 1768 in Edinburgh, it
quickly grew in popularity and size. The 3rd edition in 1801 reached 20
volumes. The rising stature of Britannica helped recruit eminent scholars
as contributors. The 9th edition is regarded as a landmark encyclopedia
for scholarship and literary style.
This DVD ROM disk contains the entire 24 Volumes, plus 1 index Volume,
all in pdf format, about
22,000 pages total! Stick it on your laptop, and have plenty of leisurely
reading to do on your next plane ride!
You will need Adobe Reader 5.0 or higher to read the files on this disk,
available for free online or is already on your machine.
Note: This is a DVD-ROM
disc, not a CD! There is simply too much information here to
put on a CD. There's almost 4 GIGABYTES (that's 4,000 megabytes) of
data here. Twenty Two Thousand pages of this historic text
in pdf format.
Great for:
History buffs
Academic scholars
Literature fans
Educators
This encyclopedia was first published over 125
years ago. Print volumes are increasingly difficult to
find. And if you were to find one, expect to pay!
And then, do you really want to flip through the pages of a
collector's encyclopedia and lower its value? With this
DVD rom disk, you can pop it in your laptop on a plane and read
along as much as you like. With 22,000 pages, I doubt
you'll ever get to it all! But, for those individuals
looking to do research on the ideas and beliefs of the 19th
century, there is no better source than the 9th edition of the
encyclopedia Britannica!
I know this goes without saying, but I'll say it
anyway. To play DVD's, you need a DVD-ROM drive in your
computer. These DVD's will not play in your CD-ROM drive.
We are not responsible for your hardware problems if you
purchase this disk without realizing you don't have a DVD-ROM
drive!
Thank you for looking, and God Bless America.
All books are in PDF format on a custom DVD
delivered to your door. You can print out as many copies as you
need on your home printer. You will need a free copy of Adobe
Reader that you can download for free online.
IMPORTANT NOTICE:
I have to say it once again, this edition has each volume in its
own PDF file, with each volume close to a thousand pages.
It is not in some sort of software format like all the new
versions of Brittanica. These are scanned pages combined
into PDF files. The last volume is the index. It is
a little pain in the butt to search through it and it can be a
little difficult to read through all of it. But, you can
do a "find" in Acrobat and search for key words in a specific
volume, and it will find them. And finally, each volume is
copy protected with our business name on it. Also, the
files are rather large in size, so I recommend at least 500 MB
of RAM on your machine, but I strongly recommend at least 1 GB
of RAM. I recommend you move the files to your hard drive
in order to read them, so keep all this in mind before you
purchase.
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