Do you specifically want it on paper, or do you just care about compact and offline? I mean, Kiwix will do offline Wikipedia on a phone, which is gonna store a lot more data than a full-size printed set in a more-compact form factor than a single book.
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It's for a retreat that will have no electrics. Hence paper only. Paperback preferably.
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?
I'm looking for one too, hope you won't mind me taking a seat and see what others may suggest because, well, the full set of the Britannica would be a tad too cumbersome ;)