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From: andrew@frip.wv.tek.com (Andrew Klossner)
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: Re: BookShelf '94
Date: 11 May 1994 22:25:57 GMT
Organization: Tektronix Color Printers, Wilsonville, Oregon
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I just installed Bookshelf '94 last night.  I have no experience with
previous editions of Bookshelf.

	"They also took out one of the Quotations books (Bartlett's I
	believe) and put in a chronology instead... I'm assuming this
	is some sort of almanac."

There's still the "Columbia Dictionary of Quotations."  The chronology
is a collection of history tidbits: each page gives a year and
describes an event that happened that year.  Pages sequence from
early days to present.  It's fun to scan through.

What's missing from most of the books on this CD-ROM is any sort of
overview point, other than the raw alphabetical lists of articles.
Compton's Interactive Encyclopedia organizes its chronology around a
visual timeline, upon which you can zoom in and out.  In Bookshelf, the
only overview I've found is a world map inside the atlas; otherwise,
each book is just a collection of pages.

Especially nice is the new price, now that Bookshelf is part of the
"Microsoft Home" brand.  I got my copy for about $US 60.  I still see
Bookshelf '93 selling for $180.

I was amused at the standard Microsoft anti-piracy stuff: a shrink-wrap
license, a registration card, and copious copyright notice screens.
Apparently they're worried about Joe Hacker copying this CD-ROM for
friends, or uploading it to a BBS.

  -=- Andrew Klossner  (andrew@frip.wv.tek.com)