gmartin997: Sounds like your parents were more practical than those of many of us here. I think most parents bought them as a status symbol, to be seen but not touched. My parents wouldn’t let me near them until I was old enough not to want to. In hindsight, it especially made no sense to buy the books when the information would be outdated in a year, but time seemed to move more slowly then, unlike today. Perhaps they couldn’t conceive of information getting old so quickly.
gmartin997: Sounds like your parents were more practical than those of many of us here. I think most parents bought them as a status symbol, to be seen but not touched. My parents wouldn’t let me near them until I was old enough not to want to. In hindsight, it especially made no sense to buy the books when the information would be outdated in a year, but time seemed to move more slowly then, unlike today. Perhaps they couldn’t conceive of information getting old so quickly.