Encyclopedia Britannica Ultimate 2008 [OLD VERSION]

List Price: $39.99 Discount Price: $30.95

Features:

• Three complete encyclopedias in one: Adult, Student, and Elementary
• 100,000+ articles, multimedia, magazine articles and more; Interactive tools including video and audio clips, and interactive tours
• Homework Helpdesk provides interactive lessons, writing and speech aids to make learning, writing research papers, and preparing oral presentations fun and easy for all ages
• Includes Merriam-Webster's Dictionary & Thesaurus, Atlas, Timelines, Magazines and Web Links, and One-Year Subscription to Britannica Online ($70 Value)
• Save articles, images, video, and more in one convenient location with Britannica Workspace

Customer Reviews:

Great tool for school [Posted on 2008-02-23]
This has come in so handy for reports that my kids have done. There are three different levels that you can use, depending on the age of the person using it. I'm so glad that I bought it!

Worth the Money [Posted on 2008-02-25]
Received the product ahead of the schedule and loaded it with no problems at all. Enjoying the product while learning about it and the information concerning so many subjects.

YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED [Posted on 2008-04-03]
I realize that my review is not about this product, but I think it is relevant to potential purchasers of Avanquest products. I do not know anything about this particular program, but have had considerable difficulty with Avanquest as detailed below.

I purchased My Ultimate Organizer 7.0 via download and subsequent key.

I am not making this up - the product displayed a message in Serbo-Croatian telling me the key had expired.

Four hours later with Technical Support and the problem is still not resolved (despite erasing the program, reinstalling, trying different keys, searching the Windows Registry, etc). It takes a full hour on hold to get a technical support representative and at the conclusion of the last session, I was told to contact Customer Service for a CD copy in the hopes that that would resolve the issue. Now Customer Service tells me Technical Support must send me the copy, although Technical Support says otherwise. I am out $30 for a program that is at this point, totally useless, and left adrift by Avanquest who has my money and refuses to help me.

I would purchase Avanquest products with extreme caution. If you have a Technical Support issue, you will have to wait a minimum of 60 minutes on hold (no 800 number), and then get fairly substandard service after that.

Very Good [Posted on 2008-04-10]
Arrived very quickly. I bought this item by mistake. I accidentally pressed the 1 click buy option. But this was the best mistake I did. It is a great tool to use when doing research or just to learn something new. This is way better than having over 20 book encyclopedia. With the books it takes more space in your house, are full of dust, and they give paper cuts. With Encyclopedia Britannica you can search very fast and easily and everything is organized very good. This is very professional.

Britannica Ultimate Falls Short [Posted on 2008-05-21]
In many ways this is a useful and complete encyclopedia, particularly for geographical, political and historical topics.

However not enough effort is put into updating technical articles. For example, the article on the technology of photography is 25 to 30 years out of date. Digital still photography is not mentioned. The closest is a reference to the original Sony Mavica, an analog electronic media camera. The bibliography for photographic technology cites sources from the mid 1980's and earlier.

This encyclopedia would be far better if updating of topics were consistent throughout.

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