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Product Features
- 10 complete reference works.
- 170,000 Entries.
- 5,000 photos and videos.
- 4,000 direct web links.
- Easy search capabilities.
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The Complete Reference Collection is a suite of titles designed to help you with a range of different kinds of research. It comprises 10 titles in all: Compton's Concise Encyclopedia, the 80,000 word Webster's New World Dictionary, the 20,000 word Webster's New World Thesaurus, Compton's World Atlas, Merriam-Webster's Geographical Dictionary with 41,000 descriptions of countries and cities, World History: A Dictionary of Important People, Places and Events, the Columbia University Complete Home Medical Guide, Merriam-Webster's Concise Handbook for Writers, the World Almanac and Book of Facts 1997, and Compton's Internet Directory. Phew!
The great joy of multimedia reference works like this one is that you can search any combination of these titles in one fell swoop. Look up "thunderstorm" for example, and you get 42 finds including alternative words from the thesaurus, definitions from the dictionary, scientific explanations from the encyclopedia and even an encyclopedia entry explaining how a thunderstorm helped Roman soldier Marcus Aurelius win a battle.
Despite having to handle and display a huge amount of information, onscreen presentation is attractive. There are four different layouts to choose from--you choose between them by clicking buttons. And searches themselves are relatively fast even when you choose to leave most of the date on the CD-ROM during installation.
Special tools let you add bookmarks to items of interest, and there is even a notebook so you can make your own jottings. The only problem with the software for a UK audience is that it prefers American spellings, so a search for "colour" reveals 16 references, while one for "color" retrieves 839. --Sandra Vogel
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
A1 reference tool,
By A Customer
This review is from: Comptons Complete Reference Collection 98 (CD-ROM)
Compton's Complete Reference Collection 98 is an excellent reference tool. A mine of information which is very user friendly, especially the word search facility. I find it particularly useful when doing general knowledge crosswords, with everything from dictionary and thesaurus to a medical guide. The only thing which keeps me from giving it the full 5 stars is that the encyclopedia and world almanac sections deal more with American topics than British, ie any questions about football deal specifically with American football and not soccer. However, I can find answers to most questions easily and will definitely buy any updated version which comes out.
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