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I have the 2 volume "Compact" edition from Book of the Month Club (complete with magnifying glass) that reduced four pages onto one. I was a teenager when I bought it; I could read it then. Now, it's a book-end and something that gets moved from house to house for vaguely sentimental reasons.
Oddly, when I use a dictionary now it's the New Oxford American edition that is built into my Kindle. It is so handy to look up words I don't know, complete with a bit of background. But I do miss using the complete edition because the examples of usage are so entertaining.
It would be terrific if Oxford would "freeze" their editions annually for historic purposes. Researchers in future would find that record fascinating no doubt.
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