Duality

I remember I used to carry around one of those pocket dictionaries everywhere with me throughout high school. Heck, I even used to study the thing when I didn't have anything else to read. Poor little me, alone on the bus with no horror novel to read, had to resort to a pocket dictionary.

I do remember though, I used to really fancy this encyclopedia set I saw once, always used to wish I had the entire set lined up perfectly on a shelf. Then I got a computer.

{update} just bought three on ebay I didn't have.

I do miss my book collection - I had literally thousands, but sadly when moving in with a g/f had to donate most to charity shops due to lack of room

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@TigerGeekGuy

You need to be stopped.

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I do remember though, I used to really fancy this encyclopedia set I saw once, always used to wish I had the entire set lined up perfectly on a shelf.

Someone gave my family their Encyclopaedia Britannica set (as-new because they never used it) for free when I was like 7 or some ridiculously young age, and I was so enthusiastic about it that my parents let me keep it (and didn't they live to regret it).

I still have them, actually; I read them before bed every day for a while, like you and your pocket dictionary, except I was probably about a half-decade younger than you were. For the record, I blame whoever used to own those encyclopaedias for why I turned out like this.

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@CypherHoof

Newnes used to do a whole range of "engineer's pocket book" editions similar to the pocket dictionaries, but on technical subjects like telephony and electrical engineering - basically just formulae, resistor codes, chip pinouts etc condensed into a small form factor hardback. I still have those, must go see if they still publish them.

I saw an engineering pocket book like that in a second-hand store once, but a several-decades-old copy. I would've bought it but for the deteriorating binding.