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Originally Posted by Little.Egret
https://public.oed.com/help/how-to-subscribe/
{OUP} are pleased to offer annual individual OED subscriptions at a reduced rate of $90 in the US (usually $295) or £90 for the Rest of the World (usually £215) until 31st July 2019.
For this annual rate, you’ll have full unrestricted access to the OED Online – including quarterly updates!
Residents of Britain mostly have the same access using their local library card name and number. Surrey###### for me.
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Why would any
individual want to own the OED? I know of only two people who own sets.
One is a dynamic public speaker who is a real wordsmith. I doubt that even he owns a very recent edition--I don't have any idea how much a hard copy of the set would currently cost, but I'm sure that it "don't come cheap." And what conceivable need would even a wordsmith have for the OED? What would he or she find in it, that he or she couldn't find in a good, comprehensive desk dictionary?
That fact that Oxford issues quarterly updates tells you how rapidly the OED goes out of date. More money to have to spend.
The other person is me. Yes, that's right,
me. Yours truly. I acquired a used set for nearly nothing when I was in the used book business about 10-15 years ago. I never could sell it, even though I had it marked with a very cheap price. I'm still looking for a good way to unload it on (er . . . I mean, "sell it to") someone who could get some good out of it.
The set that I've got constitutes two,
enormous volumes. Even at that, the type is almost infinitesimally small (with that edition, at least, Oxford furnished a magnifying glass).