One of many almanacs owned over the years, sometimes useful but before the net handy to have on a shelf. This was also one of a small collection used at least partly as a reference for crossword solving. ( )

If you are a librarian, you need an almanac. ( )

This is a perfectly competent example of a reference document that will be downright amusing to people soon if it is not already so: data in a format that can't be updated, is hard to navigate, hard to manipulate, and difficult to excerpt from...

I LOVE books, but we have better forms for storing data that don't just create a market for selling slightly updated versions annually. Ben Franklin would certainly have moved to the web for this sort of information by now. ( )