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Originally Posted by SensualPoet
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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It's all done on computers now, and they do record when updates were made. I use the CD-ROM version, and it tells you what edition various updates were from. Of course, that means that I can't see changes post 2004(?), but I'm not paying the full whack for on-line access. I wish they'd do a cheaper form of access for normal users - it's $300 per annum, or ~£250, which seems a bit steep to me.