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I remember they used to have door-to-door encyclopedia salesmen. Thinking back on it, we had book stores back then, so people could have gotten encyclopedias from there, so how did encyclopedia salesmen make any sales??
At any rate, at some point, my parents had purchased a short set of encyclopedias. They weren't as good as the ones at the school or library, but it was something like 4-5 large books.
And despite what people think today, I don't think those encyclopedias were as good or as accurate as Wikipedia is today. Wikipedia is so nice. If you want to know more about a part that's not covered well in the article, you can just go look at the source.
My parents recently got rid of a set of encyclopedias that they'd had in the house since at least the '90s. I don't actually remember where they came from or exactly when they were suddenly there, but recently they got rid of them (donated to charity) and I was a little offended - not that I said as much - that they didn't offer them to me.
They weren't even recent. They were printed in the early '50s, but in my parents' (still) no-Internet house, those encyclopedias were a good pastime.
There are usually several sets of the same available on eBay, but 1) the good sets are a bit out of my price range, 2) I have internet here and 3) I'm already hoarding far too much stuff.