It's Monday! What Are You Reading? - October 8

It's Monday! What Are You Reading? is a place to meet up and share what you have been, are and about to be reading over the week. It's a great post to organize yourself. It's an opportunity to visit and comment, and er... add to that ever growing TBR pile! So welcome in everyone. This meme started with J Kaye's Blog and then was taken up by Sheila from Book Journey. Sheila then passed it on to Kathryn at the Book Date.

Happy Thanksgiving to my Canadian friends. Here in Massachusetts, we are just starting to see the leaves change over and some have dropped. I spent some time out in the garden this morning weeding and cultivating. I think the frost cover is going to have to come out soon. Overnight on Saturday we are supposed to dropped down to 38 degrees. Yikes! Not sure if I'm ready for that.

It's been a slow reading week, but work kind of got in the way. Started this one.

I'm using these books for some research on my current work in progress, which is always fun.

I'll need to start on these for future reviews.

After that, I really want to read the next book in one of my favorite series.

What does your reading week look like?

Encyclopaedia Britannica Ends Print Edition

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Some news makes you feel older than others. I remember using our set of Encyclopaedia Britannica for research papers in school. Libraries still have copies of them; though I wonder when the last time is one has been cracked open.

Today it was announced that Encyclopaedia Britannica is halting the sale of its print edition after 244 years and moving to solely online content.

Is this a surprising move?

No, but it just one more thing that shows we're becoming a digital world. It also indicates the publishing world continues to change at the speed of light.

Do I think paperbacks and hardcovers will go the way of the dinosaur?

Not anytime soon. Three or four generations down the road maybe, but right now printed books are still a necessary commodity.

When's the last time you perfomed research using a printed encyclopedia? Do your children rely solely on online content for research? Will this latest move make libraries seem obsolete?

Help with Historical Research

I'm currently working on a middle grade novel set in a fictional New England town in the mid-1870's. As such, I am still looking for a few more reliable online resources about the time period: cooking, fashion, and agricultural methods.

I try never to click on sites I don't know. I downloaded one nasty virus that way and my laptop needed to be rebuilt last year. I'm not sure if the hubby has forgiven me for that one yet.

If you know of any reliable websites I could use for my research, I would greatly appreciate it.

Thanks!