Encyclopedia Britannica Ultimate 2008 [OLD VERSION] Reviews

• The Ultimate? I don't think so

  
  By A101GY7C9NZNZ on 2007-08-11
  They include the Merriam Webster dictionary, but it's a stripped-down verson, and unlike the encyclopedia, there's no search capability. You only get definitions. Most word-processing programs have that function, so the Websters component is worthless. The stand-alone Websters CD is a much better product. Also, the maps in the encyclopedia can't be zoomed in on, and the type is a little small. And there are no almanac-type features. There's an article about tennis, for instance, but no list of past tournament winners through the years. Maybe I've been spoiled by Encarta, which has zoom-able maps and Almanac type lists, but if Britannica wants to call itself "ultimate", it has a way to go.
  
  

• The Encyclopedia Britannica 2008

  
  By A3FGJDBSMCSG7G on 2007-09-11
  The Encyclopedia Britannica 2008 (established in 1768), both Ultimate and Deluxe, builds on the success of its completely revamped previous editions in 2006 and 2007. The rate of innovation in the last two versions was impressive and welcome. It continues apace in this rendition with Britannica Biographies (Great Minds), Classical Music (500 audio files arranged by composer), and a great Workspace for Project Management (a kind of friendly digital den). Generous 6-12 months of free access to the myriad riches of the Britannica Online complete the package.
  
  The Britannica comes bundled with an atlas (between 1600 and 2530 maps and 287 World Data Profiles of individual countries and territories), the Merriam-Webster Dictionary and Thesaurus, classic articles from previous editions, ten yearbooks, an Interactive Timeline with 4000+ indexed timeline entries, a Research Organizer, and a Knowledge Navigator (a Brain Stormer). All told, it offers a directory of more than 166,000 reviewed and vetted links to online content.
  
  In its new form, the Britannica is as user-friendly as the Encarta. With monthly updates and the aforementioned 6-12 months of free access to its impressive powerhouse online Web site, it is bound to give the former close competition.
  
  The Britannica's newest interface is even more intuitive and uncluttered than previously and is great fun to use. For instance, it generates a date-based daily selection of relevant information and highly edifying interactive tours of articles and attendant media.
  
  When you enter even the first few letters of a term in the search box, it offers various options and is persistent: no need to click on the toolbar's "search" button every time you want to find something in this vast storehouse of knowledge. Moreover, the user can save search results onto handy "Virtual Notecards". Whole articles can be copied onto the seemingly inexhaustible Workspace.
  
  The new Britannica's display is tab-based, avoiding the erstwhile confusing proliferation of windows with every move. Most importantly, articles appear in full, not in sections. This major improvement facilitates the finding of relevant keywords in and the printing of entire texts. These are only a few of the numerous alterations and enhancements.
  
  Perhaps the most refreshing change is the Britannica's Update Center. Dozens of monthly updates and new, timely articles are made available online (subject to free registration). A special button alerts the user when an entry in the base product has been updated.
  
  Regrettably, unlike in the Encarta, the updates cannot be downloaded to the user's computer or otherwise incorporated into the vast encyclopedia. Moreover, the product does not alert its user to the existence of completely new articles (e.g., the Kyoto Protocol). Only a manual scan of the monthly lists reveals newly added content.
  
  Speaking of updates, one must not forget to dwell on the Britannica's unequalled yearbooks. Each annual volume contains the year in events, scientific developments, and everything you wanted to know about the latest in any and every conceivable field of human endeavor or nature. Close to 10,000 articles culled from the last 10 editions buttress and update the Encyclopedia's anyhow impressive offerings.
  
  The Britannica provides considerably more text than any other extant encyclopedia, print or digital. But it has noticeably enhanced it non-textual content over the years (the 1994-7 editions had nothing or very little but words, words, and more words): it now boasts in excess of 21,000 images and illustrations and 900 video and audio clips.
  
  The Britannica fully supports serious research. It is a sober assemblage of first-rate essays, up to date bibliographies, and relevant multimedia. It is a desktop university library: thorough, well-researched, comprehensive, trustworthy.
  
  The Britannica's 80-100,000 articles (depending on the version) are long and thorough, supported by impressive bibliographies, and written by the best scholars in their respective fields. The company's Editorial Board of Advisors reads like the who's who of the global intellectual and scientific community.
  
  The Britannica is an embarrassment of riches. Users often find the wealth and breadth of information daunting and data mining is fast becoming an art form. This is why the Britannica incorporated the Brain Stormer to cope with this predicament. But an informal poll I conducted online shows that few know how to deploy it effectively.
  
  The Britannica also sports Student and Elementary versions of its venerable flagship product, replete with a Homework Helpdesk - but it is far better geared to tackle the information needs of adults and, even more so, professionals. It provides unequalled coverage of its topics. Ironically, this is precisely why the market positioning of the Britannica's Elementary and Student Encyclopedias is problematic.
  
  The current edition is fully integrated with the Internet. Apart from the updates, it offers additional and timely content and revisions on a dedicated Web site. The digital product includes a staggering number of links (165,808!) to third party content and articles on the Web. The GeoAnalyzer, which compares national statistical data and generates charts and graphs, is now Web-based and greatly enhanced.
  
  The Britannica would do well to offer a browser add-on search bar and to integrate with desktop search tools from Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, and others. Currently it offers search results through Google but this requires the user to install add-ons or plug-ins and to go through a convoluted rite of passage. A seamless experience is in the cards. Users must and will be able to ferret content from all over - their desktop, their encyclopedias, and the Web - using a single, intuitive interface.
  
  Some minor gripes:
  
  The atlas, dictionary, and thesaurus incorporated in the Britannica are still surprisingly outdated. Why not use a more current - and dynamically updated - offering? What about dictionaries for specialty terms (medical or computer glossaries, for instance)?
  
  Despite considerable improvement over the previous edition, the Britannica still consumes (not to say hogs) computer resource far in excess of the official specifications. This makes it less suitable for installation on older PCs and on many laptops. If you own a machine with anything earlier than Pentium 3 and less than 4 Gb of really free space - forget it!
  
  The Britannica uses a new graphic and text renderer. On some systems, the user needs to modify his or her desktop settings to get rid of jagged fonts and blurry photos. The software also seriously conflicts with security applications (especially anti-virus and firewall products). It is not compatible with the latest QuickTime, though it offers a patch to remedy the situation.
  
  But that's it. Don't think twice. Run to the closest retail outlet (or surf to the Britannica's Web site) and purchase the 2008 edition now. It offers excellent value for money (less than $50) and significantly enhances you access to knowledge and wisdom accumulated over centuries all over the world. Sam Vaknin, author of "Malignant Self-love - Narcissism Revisited".
  
  

• Indispensable Source of Research

  
  By A3J5O6AWRP1YWQ on 2007-07-23
  It has material not found in Encarta, which I also depend on heavily. They are complimentary, not in opposition.
  
  

• This software is giving me shareware flashbacks

  
  By A38UAS06ZNIB7C on 2007-12-12
  I have purchased a number of Britannica products in the past and have been getting the latest "ultimate" type DVD regularly for a number of years now. While the underlying application and information remains excellent, the 2008 edition suffers from a very surprising attack of shareware-itis.
  In short, the software will show you a nag dialog every time you open it, and it will wait to do so until you've already started whatever search you were intending thereby interrupting your workflow. It then gives you a dialog that basically gives you two options: Will you either allow us to start spamming you with email, or do you want us to annoy you again next time you start the app?
  I am, of course, referring to the registration "reminder" that you cannot get rid of except by sending your personal information to Britannica (well, I assume that will get rid of it) and which completely blocks the application while it's being displayed.
  If you intend to give Britannica your email address etc., then this is unlikely to be a problem for you. If you would rather not, however, then I suggest you buy the 2007 edition. It's largely the same piece of software and it's a lot more user-friendly.
  For Britannica's complete contempt for their customers, I give the 2008 edition one star out of five, and only because I apparently cannot give it zero stars.
  
  

• Has its faults but far better than Wikipedia

  
  By ANEZJYKUDNJYQ on 2007-11-17
  I've had it with that pesthole of crackpots, nitwits, fans and school papers called Wikipedia. I copied Britannica to my hard drive and am now a happy camper.
  
  Two problems have cropped up. First, and most troublesome, is that the bibliographies of standing articles don't look like they've been updated in about twelve years and don't seem to have been updated online either. The ones I looked at were historical/biographical entries, but scholarship marches on, and for me the essence of a good reference is information about the latest research. (The so-called references cited on Wikipedia are usually just other crackpots' opinions.) Another problem is the video. I installed the patch from the online support page, but the video still doesn't work. This isn't a big deal for me, and it may be a problem on my end, but check it out if the multimedia is going to be important to you.
  
  That said, the quality of Britannica's content alone is worth the price, and to have the mother of encyclopedias installed locally in my computer makes it irresistable. If you do reference often, do yourself and/or your kids a favor and have this one running in the background.
  
  
• ETERNAL ONLINE REGISTRATION NAGS...
  By A3IQF4MHR7LUUM on 2007-11-21
  I've always loved EB - as a kid I used to read it like a novel...
  
  HOWEVER... not all people have an internet-enabled installation. Just because I'm emailing this review doesn't mean my EB DVD is on this PC - it isn't.
  
  I'm very annoyed about the registration nags which REQUIRE an online connection. And they NEVER STOP. Ever.
  
  If I could get my hands around the neck of the programmer who failed to anticipate this issue I'd cheerfully throttle him or her.
  
  Have a nice day.
  
  
  
  
• Academic database of wisdom two and a half centuries in the making
  By AD0J5KK4WQXNS on 2008-01-08
  The Encyclopædia Britannica was first published in 1768 and still remains the best scholarly volume of knowledge available, and now at a breathtakingly cheap price. Subsequent editions of the Encyclopædia Britannica took decades to update but the tome would double and triple in size each time. In 19th century the Encyclopædia Britannica had gone from 1 book to 20. By the first decade of the 20th century the Encyclopædia Britannica had grown to 29 with over 40,000 articles.
  
  In the course of the 1950s the Encyclopædia Britannica established a worldwide editing team to give the publication global representation. This era of the Encyclopædia Britannica is widely regarded as one of the most expensive and work demanding investments ever undertaken for a publication. Over 4,000 scholars where assembled for this project.
  
  During the 1970s until the 1990s the Encyclopædia Britannica went through restructuring into different categories to make the articles easier to access. The finalized version (1985-present) consists of a 32 volume set and is the one that this software is based on.
  
  The next major transformation took place in the early 1990s when the Encyclopædia Britannica took advantage of the CD-ROM revolution. The digital technology innovators claimed that the new data storage medium could be compared to containing the entire Encyclopædia Britannica on one disc. The Encyclopædia Britannica was released on one disc becoming one of the most popular software packages available on the new CD-ROM format.
  
  Along with providing one of the most comprehensive Encyclopædias available for computers, the Encyclopædia Britannica hosts the domain Britannica on the Internet.
  
  Even though the Internet revolution offered considerable challenges to the Encyclopædia Britannica, such as Google's search engine capabilities, Wikipedia the free on-line Encyclopaedia, along with Microsoft's Encarta software, the Encyclopædia Britannica still has a powerhouse collection of articles that are edited by a staff of academics that are specialized in each field. You are guaranteed quality information. This makes the Encyclopædia Britannica a dependable resource for anybody who just wants to get their facts about the world right. Journalists depend on it, as do researchers and students alike.
  
  The Encyclopædia Britannica has over a whopping 100,000 articles to read.
  
  The Encyclopædia Britannica, for the full experience, takes up 4 GB of drive space. It is still on one disc although the medium is now a single DVD and not a CD. Even on high-end machines the Encyclopædia Britannica can take quite some time to install, so be prepared to wait around while 4 GB of data extracts onto your computer. The Encyclopædia Britannica software runs like a web browser and resembles Apple's Operating System widgets. Quickly the Encyclopædia Britannica becomes a workspace. You can browse timelines, view the atlas, or explore popular events. There is a nice brainstormer, powered by TheBrain software, which allows you to go through huge sections of material by category, very rapidly.
  
  The Encyclopædia Britannica A-Z is always going to stand out as the reason to own this package. The material is just so well presented in terms of the quality of English, layout and the vast array of support material including graphics, videos, many of which the user can interact with. The search feature not only pulls up direct articles, but also one's linked to it, images and a book of the year list.
  
  There are a few downsides but they are minor. One is that the package is the equivalent of opening up several intensive web pages over a web browser. If your system hangs or slows down considerably if you open up lots of new tabs or windows with content heavy pages, then you can expect the Encyclopædia Britannica to act the same way. It has always been a hardware intensive package and still continues to be. So make sure your PC is in order for it. The other thing is that it requires you to register or else you will be asked every time you use it with a pop-up that doesn't stop until you do. It is a little annoying. The only way to turn it off is to register. It is also nice to have the Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary imbedded in the software but it is just a basic dictionary search and thesaurus and lacks any advanced power like the full version dictionary. However the Encyclopædia Britannica itself makes up for these minor quibbles.
  
  Overall the Encyclopædia Britannica does one other thing well which all others fail to do. It makes you want to read it from start to finish. Many people have done this and it is a completely viable option given that you do a little bit each day over the course of a year or more depending on how much you do. Where other Encyclopædias are for reference, the Encyclopædia Britannica almost demands to be read. You just know the experience would be time well spent.
  
  The Encyclopædia Britannica could very well be one of the most important items you could ever own. Education is the best investment you can make.
  
  
• The Encyclopedia Britannica 2008
  By A3FGJDBSMCSG7G on 2007-09-11
  The Encyclopedia Britannica 2008 (established in 1768), both Ultimate and Deluxe, builds on the success of its completely revamped previous editions in 2006 and 2007. The rate of innovation in the last two versions was impressive and welcome. It continues apace in this rendition with Britannica Biographies (Great Minds), Classical Music (500 audio files arranged by composer), and a great Workspace for Project Management (a kind of friendly digital den). Generous 6-12 months of free access to the myriad riches of the Britannica Online complete the package.
  
  The Britannica comes bundled with an atlas (between 1600 and 2530 maps and 287 World Data Profiles of individual countries and territories), the Merriam-Webster Dictionary and Thesaurus, classic articles from previous editions, ten yearbooks, an Interactive Timeline with 4000+ indexed timeline entries, a Research Organizer, and a Knowledge Navigator (a Brain Stormer). All told, it offers a directory of more than 166,000 reviewed and vetted links to online content.
  
  In its new form, the Britannica is as user-friendly as the Encarta. With monthly updates and the aforementioned 6-12 months of free access to its impressive powerhouse online Web site, it is bound to give the former close competition.
  
  The Britannica's newest interface is even more intuitive and uncluttered than previously and is great fun to use. For instance, it generates a date-based daily selection of relevant information and highly edifying interactive tours of articles and attendant media.
  
  When you enter even the first few letters of a term in the search box, it offers various options and is persistent: no need to click on the toolbar's "search" button every time you want to find something in this vast storehouse of knowledge. Moreover, the user can save search results onto handy "Virtual Notecards". Whole articles can be copied onto the seemingly inexhaustible Workspace.
  
  The new Britannica's display is tab-based, avoiding the erstwhile confusing proliferation of windows with every move. Most importantly, articles appear in full, not in sections. This major improvement facilitates the finding of relevant keywords in and the printing of entire texts. These are only a few of the numerous alterations and enhancements.
  
  Perhaps the most refreshing change is the Britannica's Update Center. Dozens of monthly updates and new, timely articles are made available online (subject to free registration). A special button alerts the user when an entry in the base product has been updated.
  
  Regrettably, unlike in the Encarta, the updates cannot be downloaded to the user's computer or otherwise incorporated into the vast encyclopedia. Moreover, the product does not alert its user to the existence of completely new articles (e.g., the Kyoto Protocol). Only a manual scan of the monthly lists reveals newly added content.
  
  Speaking of updates, one must not forget to dwell on the Britannica's unequalled yearbooks. Each annual volume contains the year in events, scientific developments, and everything you wanted to know about the latest in any and every conceivable field of human endeavor or nature. Close to 10,000 articles culled from the last 10 editions buttress and update the Encyclopedia's anyhow impressive offerings.
  
  The Britannica provides considerably more text than any other extant encyclopedia, print or digital. But it has noticeably enhanced it non-textual content over the years (the 1994-7 editions had nothing or very little but words, words, and more words): it now boasts in excess of 21,000 images and illustrations and 900 video and audio clips.
  
  The Britannica fully supports serious research. It is a sober assemblage of first-rate essays, up to date bibliographies, and relevant multimedia. It is a desktop university library: thorough, well-researched, comprehensive, trustworthy.
  
  The Britannica's 80-100,000 articles (depending on the version) are long and thorough, supported by impressive bibliographies, and written by the best scholars in their respective fields. The company's Editorial Board of Advisors reads like the who's who of the global intellectual and scientific community.
  
  The Britannica is an embarrassment of riches. Users often find the wealth and breadth of information daunting and data mining is fast becoming an art form. This is why the Britannica incorporated the Brain Stormer to cope with this predicament. But an informal poll I conducted online shows that few know how to deploy it effectively.
  
  The Britannica also sports Student and Elementary versions of its venerable flagship product, replete with a Homework Helpdesk - but it is far better geared to tackle the information needs of adults and, even more so, professionals. It provides unequalled coverage of its topics. Ironically, this is precisely why the market positioning of the Britannica's Elementary and Student Encyclopedias is problematic.
  
  The current edition is fully integrated with the Internet. Apart from the updates, it offers additional and timely content and revisions on a dedicated Web site. The digital product includes a staggering number of links (165,808!) to third party content and articles on the Web. The GeoAnalyzer, which compares national statistical data and generates charts and graphs, is now Web-based and greatly enhanced.
  
  The Britannica would do well to offer a browser add-on search bar and to integrate with desktop search tools from Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, and others. Currently it offers search results through Google but this requires the user to install add-ons or plug-ins and to go through a convoluted rite of passage. A seamless experience is in the cards. Users must and will be able to ferret content from all over - their desktop, their encyclopedias, and the Web - using a single, intuitive interface.
  
  Some minor gripes:
  
  The atlas, dictionary, and thesaurus incorporated in the Britannica are still surprisingly outdated. Why not use a more current - and dynamically updated - offering? What about dictionaries for specialty terms (medical or computer glossaries, for instance)?
  
  Despite considerable improvement over the previous edition, the Britannica still consumes (not to say hogs) computer resource far in excess of the official specifications. This makes it less suitable for installation on older PCs and on many laptops. If you own a machine with anything earlier than Pentium 3 and less than 4 Gb of really free space - forget it!
  
  The Britannica uses a new graphic and text renderer. On some systems, the user needs to modify his or her desktop settings to get rid of jagged fonts and blurry photos. The software also seriously conflicts with security applications (especially anti-virus and firewall products). It is not compatible with the latest QuickTime, though it offers a patch to remedy the situation.
  
  But that's it. Don't think twice. Run to the closest retail outlet (or surf to the Britannica's Web site) and purchase the 2008 edition now. It offers excellent value for money (less than $50) and significantly enhances you access to knowledge and wisdom accumulated over centuries all over the world. Sam Vaknin, author of "Malignant Self-love - Narcissism Revisited".
  
  
• Save your money
  By A2M2W6X0LIIZU7 on 2008-01-26
  My only reasoning for acquiring Britannica was I thought that spending some money could land me a more comprehensive resource for quick research other than the free Wikipedia. As soon as I installed it, I did some quick article comparisons between the $35 "2008 Ulimate Britanica" and the free Wikipedia and found that pretty much on every article I was looking at, Britannica fell way short in the depth of content. Their articles were at least 75% shorter than the ones offered on Wikipedia, it offered no scholarly citations, no organization, few pictures, and fewer articles in general.
  
  I'm not here promoting Wikipedia, but I was just wanted perhaps a more credible source of information. Instead, I only found that there was just so little information on this product it's not even worth the comparison. I hope Encarta is a lot better than this... or is our encyclopedic authority left to precarious user-submitted sites?
  
  I am a college student at a four-year university, btw.
  
  
  
• could be better
  By A28AUX68Q8T3TQ on 2007-11-15
  Its just average. The one-year updates cost $49.95! whats up with that? Encarta 2008 immediately updates upon installation. Free. Yes, can't use the software if you do a full install to your hard drive.
  
  
• YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED
  By A1CZ14RN06DK0I on 2008-04-03
  I realize that my review is not about this product, but I think it is relevant to potential purchasers of Avanquest products. I do not know anything about this particular program, but have had considerable difficulty with Avanquest as detailed below.
  
  I purchased My Ultimate Organizer 7.0 via download and subsequent key.
  
  I am not making this up - the product displayed a message in Serbo-Croatian telling me the key had expired.
  
  Four hours later with Technical Support and the problem is still not resolved (despite erasing the program, reinstalling, trying different keys, searching the Windows Registry, etc). It takes a full hour on hold to get a technical support representative and at the conclusion of the last session, I was told to contact Customer Service for a CD copy in the hopes that that would resolve the issue. Now Customer Service tells me Technical Support must send me the copy, although Technical Support says otherwise. I am out $30 for a program that is at this point, totally useless, and left adrift by Avanquest who has my money and refuses to help me.
  
  I would purchase Avanquest products with extreme caution. If you have a Technical Support issue, you will have to wait a minimum of 60 minutes on hold (no 800 number), and then get fairly substandard service after that.
  
  
• Pleased with Britannica
  By A1APOU2W1OOMBL on 2007-08-01
  Encyclopedia Britannica Ultimate 2008 is a very good source of knowledge, you just write the query and you'll see how it works. I am very pleased to have it (this is my first time)something I like it a lot is the brain software that organizes in a mind mapping the different related links of a subject you are looking for; even though is not cheap it is a good marketing idea to show how it works by a month free demo. I think I will buy Britannica for the incoming years.
  
  
• Encyclopedia Britannica Ultimate 2008
  By A2TUUGBNFR8O8I on 2007-10-29
  I had this software for a few days and i'm impressed on how much information it carries. At times it glitches, I believe it does this because i installed the full version on my hard drive, takes up about 3 gigs. this only happens when i play media on it. its worth the money and it also comes with one year free subscription.Good for students and adults.
  
  
• Britannica 2008
  By A1R65RRXOGXDEH on 2007-12-18
  This product is excellent for the advanced high-school, beginning college student. More reliable than wikipedia, the articles provided by this resource are informative and probe 'beyond the surface.'
  
  
• Great Resource as well as Information
  By on 2007-08-04
  Britannica 2008 has tons of information. It has more information and Encarta 2008, but it is definitely bass to buy them both together, because that will help you more in school because Microsoft student with Encarta premium has more tools but Britannica has better information. Pall Mall Britannica 2008 is a wonderful piece of software that will help you in all aspects of whether you're an elementary school student or college is a must buy. :-)
  
  
• Way better than Encarta!
  By A1HWGCYLZPHKXV on 2007-10-13
  This is the best encyclopedia out there. If you want great adult, in depth reading material and easy to use interface, this is the only one to buy.
  
  
• Great except for one issue
  By A1MJMYLRTZ76ZX on 2007-12-18
  This is an amazing electronic reference in many ways. It has three levels of difficulty depending on the school level, from elementary to intermediate to adult, includes the Merriam Webster dictionary, and thesaurus. It has some new features that are quite useful, such as the Britannica brainstorm, a way of organizing your research, and a new interface from the one I had with the older 2003 version.
  
  It's a great encyclopedia and it's strengths are in science, technology, geography, and various specialized topics, and to a lesser degree biography and history. The World Book is just the opposite: it's strengths are in biography and world and U.S. history, so really, the two great 'pedias complement each other.
  
  Librarians in the past prefered the World Book because the writing level was more approachable, and could be used by schoolchildren, but the the Britannica has now solved that issue with these new levels of writing. The World Book is in some ways still easier to use, but the Britannica still represents the highest level of scholarship and technical difficulty.
  
  My main issue is with the new interface, I just don't like it as much and prefer the older one, but perhaps that's a matter of taste. But that's the reason for the four instead of five stars. The new interface has more context sensitive windows or frames, which is useful, and the bookmarking capability is cool, which I don't think my earlier edition had.
  
  Anyway, it's a great reference tool and one that I'm very pleased with, and It's still the standard by which all the others are measured.
  
  
• Britannica Ultimate Falls Short
  By A2EJTKZE8EQH23 on 2008-05-21
  In many ways this is a useful and complete encyclopedia, particularly for geographical, political and historical topics.
  
  However not enough effort is put into updating technical articles. For example, the article on the technology of photography is 25 to 30 years out of date. Digital still photography is not mentioned. The closest is a reference to the original Sony Mavica, an analog electronic media camera. The bibliography for photographic technology cites sources from the mid 1980's and earlier.
  
  This encyclopedia would be far better if updating of topics were consistent throughout.
  
  
• Great Encyclopedia
  By A1LFIXKYXCQJEQ on 2007-09-10
  This encyclopedia has everything. Photos, video, and great articles! Just what I needed for school.
  
  
• Awesome
  By A1Q71XKTWK6TK7 on 2008-01-18
  This was the best gift I could've given to my sister's family with kids ranging in age from 2 to 9 yrs! Very cool with a large multi-media section.
  
  
• Encyclopedia Britannica Ultimate 2008
  By A33PYIJ8J7IF1A on 2008-01-23
  GREAT IDEA!!! A must GET for any college student who must do research papers. The DVD gives two types of citations: MLA AND APA. Both are needed in today's colleges. One year of free updates, online Britannica, and other items just sweeten the deal. Again a MUST GET/GREAT IDEA for any college student.
  
  
• Great tool for school
  By A1QJC6V7QRVKKV on 2008-02-23
  This has come in so handy for reports that my kids have done. There are three different levels that you can use, depending on the age of the person using it. I'm so glad that I bought it!
  
  
• Worth the Money
  By A1LNCVN827S3AR on 2008-02-25
  Received the product ahead of the schedule and loaded it with no problems at all. Enjoying the product while learning about it and the information concerning so many subjects.
  
  
• encyclophia
  By AYBETBHXRDW7Z on 2007-10-17
  this a very good ready reference. helps someone to advancement on
  different topics without ado on going to library for researh.
  
  
• Could use some improvement
  By A27QOOYPV7WHBZ on 2007-09-09
  This is a great reference library for the whole family, but its timeline is not as nice as the one that Grolier used to provide. Another feature that I love is that the user is allowed to install all the contents of the encyclopedia onto the hard drive.
  
  

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