My parents, when I was but a wee English major at the best damn university in the world, bought for me the "compact" edition of the Oxford English Dictionary. It reduced every page of the 20-volume OED to one-quarter size, and put them into to two really heavy volumes. It came complete with magnifying glass... no lie.
Even with my glasses AND said magnifying glass, I can no longer read my copy of the OED.
The 20-volume set costs over $6200 in blue leather, and over a grand for basic hardcover. The online version is a $295 annual subscription. The CD-ROM is a single payment of $295.
Guess which one I just bought to help out with my Shakespeare project?
[hint, I won't need to pay but once, or make room on the bookshelf!]
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