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An Online Encyclopedia Worth Paying For

Britannica Online

This site is the closest thing I've seen to a real-world version of Douglas Adams's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Britannica switched to a pay site in late 2001, and now it provides only a small portion of its extensive online encyclopedia for free. I was able to subscribe and remain within my $50 budget (the cost is just $10 a month or $70 a year, with a free three-day trial). My subscription gives me ad-free access to the full Encyclopedia Britannica, the Concise Britannica, the Student Britannica, and the exhaustively researched Britannica Atlas. I'm also able to peruse the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus (a much thinner version of the company's Unabridged dictionary), and a searchable index of historical video and audio recordings. For instance, you can download and listen to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s stirring "I Have a Dream" speech.

--Andrew Brandt

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