Re: [GZG] LITE, LIGHT and other painful matters

["Richard Bell" <rlbell.nsuid@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 9:13 AM, Jerry Han <jhan@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

A friend of mine has an edition of the 'compact two volume unabridged
OED' -- the one with each book at 22" x 14", the whole thing weighs about
40 or 50 pounds and comes with it's own bar magnifier.  Whew.

JGH

My mom has that.  It is the full eight volumes of the earlier edition photographically reduced to two.  Done with the same treatment, the OED2 would still need six volumes, as it would have run to twenty-three volumes of readable type.  I had thought that OED2 was one of the first reference books to be published in a CD-ROM format. 

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