Customer Reviews

The World Almanac and Book of Facts 1998

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I have bought a copy of The World Almanac every year since 1988...To me, it's money well spent, because nearly every fact and figure you'll ever need is right at your fingertips...Within a year, I wear my own copy out...I use it on the job and at home for quick reference, settling debates, and even just for leisure reading. It's easy to use, and it's a heck of a lot cheaper than updating encyclopedias!! The World Almanac is a definite must for any bookshelf...

Although "The World Almanac" is still an indispensable source of information, the 1998 paperback edition seems to have some printing anomalies: on many pages, the letters appear to have been printed with an inadequate dot-matrix design, leaving the text rough and hard on the eyes.

Many thanks to the Almanac for preserving the paper edition's extremely reasonable cover price ("still only $9.95"), but I wonder if price is being maintained at the expense of quality. I hope the Almanac will fix its typeface problem, even if the price must rise: I for one would gladly pay more for a paper edition that is crisply printed.