Yes! I looked on amazon for some not too long ago to stage my office, and there is not much of a selection. It's like they're obsolete!

I have the ones pictured above and don't want them - I'm in sw florida

YES! And card catalogs!

Like one of my professors used to say, "Back in my day when you said you were 'in the stacks', you were 'IN THE STACKS'. Haha.

I remember when the library first got a Macintosh computer. I would beg my mom to drop me off so I could wait my turn to play Oregon Trail! :)

I have a really old set with a custom book case made just for them - I'll give them away if anyone wants. Dated 1955. I'm in SW Florida.

I sure do, we had several but I remember having to pack and unpacked them several times every time we moved house-renting at the time! I love books, they were well used at the time but no longer needed them and having world access at the tip tap of the keyboard to online resources seems to be making them no longer required.

I love that there are two people with sets to give away in this thread and they are both in SW Florida. :) Generous folks down there.

As a kid I loved our old red and blue World Book set with great color plates. I was thrilled to find an identical set in my class room and I still use it for my kids to use for visual references of animals, clothes from history and such. Faster than booting up the iMac and they find trivia along their searches. Their favorite is "Bloody Mary " When they start that silly business about seeing her in a mirror, I have them look up Mary Tudor to see the real one.

I sure do. My parents had no answers. We were constantly referred to the encyclopedia set. Coincidently I won a regional spelling bee in 3rd grade by being able to spell encyclopedia

My parents had a 1963 edition of Collier's encyclopedia. On some pages i see some of my crayon drawing squiggly lines. As an adult i read them, not every page, just the pages that pretty much contained science and in particular solid state physics (which i absolutely w/out a doubt luv x 3.141292 :))))

I do, growing up we had a collection of encyclopedias. I spent so many summer nights trying to read every bit and part out of all of them. Needless to say, I spent so much of my childhood reading!

We had the set pictured above when I was growing up. My stepfather prided himself on being the smartest guy in the room, and was constantly looking stuff up in them. If we wanted to know something, all we had to do was ask him and he'd look it up to show-off.