32 Volumes on CD (Britannica CD Deluxe 2000)

Member Name: janharper

Product:	Britannica CD Deluxe 2000
Date:	19/06/01 (56 review reads)
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Advantages: Everything you want to know

Disadvantages: Too complex for younger children

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I have considered it but apart from the huge expense, I was also put off by the fact that my encyclopedias would be out of date in a year, when the new version came out.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 more than 83,000 articles, 4000 photographs and illustrations and 1300 maps.

There is also a research assistant function which can help you search, plan and organise projects and course work. You could even use it to gather extra information for your Dooyoo ops!

The CD Rom will connect you to websites that are considered by Britannica to be appropriate to your research.

This software will run on Win95, 98/ 2000/Me/ NT. You need a Pentium 133 or higher, 32Mb RAM, 90Mb hard disk space and a CD ROM Drive to use it properly.

The information provided by Britannica is very thorough and tends to be quite cumbersome to organise. This is not a problem for students and most adults, but younger children will probably need some help.

A very useful encyclopedia for family use and for research but perhaps too complex for younger children to use unsupervised. This is £30 well spent.

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