Search engines have made them obsolete and yet I have trouble letting go of my collection of reference books. From my reference books what I miss now are those odd entries catching my eye as I went paging through them toward whatever it was I was hunting for.
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Amen! In anticipation of a move this Spring I recently packed up my OED (12 volumes with 2 supplements), which took three hours because I would open a volume and lose 40 minutes in wandering the pages.
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