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crossi · 03-28-2018, 08:30 AM

Did any of you read the entire encyclopedia as a child? My family had a set and I used to enjoy flopping down on my bed and reading a volume. Did your family subscribe to Readers Digest Condensed Books? They were great and mostly had some pretty good selections. Did your grade school have the book selling program, might have been called Scholastic or something similar, where you could each month select some books to buy from a monthly catalog? I remember they were pretty inexpensive and my mother would let me pick out one or two each month. Do the grade schools still do this? Lots of options back then to start kids off reading early. I don't know if they are still around. The encyclopedias at least are gone.

03-28-2018, 08:30 AM	#31
crossi Guru Posts: 997 Karma: 12000001 Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Seattle Wahington U.S. Device: kindle	Did any of you read the entire encyclopedia as a child? My family had a set and I used to enjoy flopping down on my bed and reading a volume. Did your family subscribe to Readers Digest Condensed Books? They were great and mostly had some pretty good selections. Did your grade school have the book selling program, might have been called Scholastic or something similar, where you could each month select some books to buy from a monthly catalog? I remember they were pretty inexpensive and my mother would let me pick out one or two each month. Do the grade schools still do this? Lots of options back then to start kids off reading early. I don't know if they are still around. The encyclopedias at least are gone. Last edited by crossi; 03-28-2018 at 08:33 AM.