who remembers using these when we had to "google" stuff?

My dad had three different sets of encyclopedias, one set was all about outer space. Not to mention that he subscribed to every single National Geographic and time magazine for probably his entire life. My house was literally like a library and my sister and I would play librarian with all the books that we had

I remember having to use real libraries for high school assignment research.

My parents had 2 encyclopedias. I rember having to make an essay for school. I picked a topic first and then looked for info in the encyclopedia and in the library. I couldn't find a lot of info, so the essay was really bad.

Used it and the library..a lot!

Libraries were my favorite place to snooze also!

Bookstores were my 'babysitter', when Mom went shopping!

Yes!!

We were too poor to have encyclopedias

I remember salesmen coming by the house and my parents not speaking english to avoid the sales pitch

I still use those, even volumes 1-5 which you seem to have lost 😱

Yep, I remember those all too well. It was either that or microfiche at the library.

They were amazing these encyclopaedias

Oh my yes!!

Yes

Yes

I definitely do. Especially when doing those nasty school reports.