Britannica CD Deluxe 2000

If you need to buy an encyclopaedia, this is the one that I recommend to you. Encyclopaedia Britannica is the best one on the market that I can recommend to you. Britannica was very easy to install, and I was fully operational in ten minutes. It contains over 44 million words, and over 8000 photographs and illustrations. Also the program runs alongside a very affective website (www.britannica.com) which contains additional links, and current up to date facts. The only disadvantage for CD ROM users is that the program comes on 2 disks, and this can cause a few changes while you use it. But if you get it on DVD, you'll be laughing! ...  Read the complete review

Britannica on DVD destroys the need to go online for research. Ever. It's not just removing disk-swapping; it actually adds a lot more content and movies to Britannica so you can find information on just about anything. And if you can't, there are literally thousands of web links. I would say about 3/4 of the articles in Britannica, and all of the main ones, contain web links. They are listed out and can be brought up with just one click. EB (Encyclopedia Britannica) offers In-Depth articles as well, which have outline views and many subsections. Not to mention the massive media content. Movies, images and sounds cover most articles - looking up ...  Read the complete review

Have you ever wished you could afford to buy all 32 volumes of the Encyclopedia Britannica? I have considered it but apart from the huge expense, I was also put off by the fact that my encyclopedias would be out of date in a year, when the new version came out. The 2001 version of this Britannica software is now available. You can get the latest version for just £29.99 which is just a fraction of what a set of actual books would cost you. There is a search facility included in the package which means that its so much easier to find what you want. You can type in a question and you will be guided to the relevant sections. Choose from ...  Read the complete review

I use the standard edition of the encyclopaedia Britannia and have been delighted with my results. The one CD contains over 73000 articles. 4000 photos and illustrations (as opposed to 8500 in the deluxe edition) and internet links. I am very happy with the standard edition as there is only one cd so there is no need to keep swapping between disks. A lot of encyclopedias come with a variety of sound effects, slide shows and pictures, however these distract you and for me have limited appeal, and are more useful for children. The content is excellent and the search engine is very througher, and so much more comprehensive than the published ...  Read the complete review

This Britannica Encyclopedia is actually very usefull and goes into a lot of depth (far more than one's such as Microsoft's Encarta). This can be an advantage to some though also a disadvantage to others. So in a way this would not always be the idel program, say for someone in Primary school. Like most programs now this one also uses the internet to its full extent allowing the user to goto a website for further information on their chosen topic. ...  Read the complete review