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Am looking for a compact paperback encyclopedia but am struggling to find one available in the UK. I used to have the Hutchison compact, but believe that was last printed in the 90s..

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[โ€“] tal@lemmy.today 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Well, if I go to Amazon and filter the encyclopedia category to paperback and then sort by ascending price to push the multivolume sets to the end, I get a lot of special-purpose and children's encyclopedias.

The first general-purpose one I see is this:

https://www.amazon.com/Concise-Columbia-Encyclopedia-Paul-Legasse/dp/0395751845/138-3217902-2525925

That's new, but looking at the copyright date, I think that's it's from the 1990s as well, just still being printed. Are you wanting just a current print or also something with current articles?

I'd print Wikipedia if I had the resources ;)

Yes, current articles or, say, last 5 years maybe?