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All the Knowledge in the World - The Extraordinary Story of the Encyclopaedia Vintage Crime / Black Lizard Vintage Books Alex is jailed and madeThe encyclopedia once shaped our understanding of the world. Created by thousands of scholars and the most obsessive of editors, a good set conveyed a sense of absolute wisdom on its reader. Now these huge books gather dust and sell for almost nothing on eBay. Instead, we get our information from our phones and computers, apparently for free. What have we lost in this transition? And how did we tell the progress of our lives in the past?