Which almanachs or yearbooks (print-edition) do you have ?

[Tender Branson]

Or do you buy each year ?

Despite the Internet and Wikipedia, I buy the "Fischer Weltalmanach" each year. It comes out in Mid-September of each year, has ca. 800 pages, costs ca. 26$ and covers the events from July 1 to June 30 of each year in every country.

You can look into it here:

http://images.buch.de/images-adb/6b/b5/6bb5228d-e749-4f56-b6e6-ca15da46c0f2.pdf

This year's edition has a special topic about Water, while the 2014 issue will have a special topic about Ressources.

Current version 2013:



Next version 2014:

[WalterMitty]

i first got interested in politics as a young boy looking the presidential election results in the world almanac and book of facts.  my dad used to buy a copy every year. 

[Oldiesfreak1854]

I have the World Almanac 2009, as well as a few kids' editions from earlier and when I was younger.  I also have the 2007 Almanac of American Politics, which I received for Christmas that year.

[Fritz]

1993

[MATTROSE94]

I did have a 1968 world almanac that I found in my moms late uncles house, but it was destroyed during Hurricane Sandy.

[dead0man]

My parents got an Almanac every year.  After I moved out, I got one for Christmas every year.  Now we have the internet and no need for them.  I do still get last years Consumer Reports book from them at Christmas, but that's not the same thing at all.

[Ban my account ffs!]

um.. only the best...



But as for actual world almanacs.. I haven't gotten one since about 2000.  Internet, bro.  It's for learning.

[memphis]

I have my high school yearbooks We had a set of Funk and Wagnall Encyclopedias when I was in elementary school. Every year, Kroger would sell one book each week, so that if you kept coming back to the store, you could get the entire set over the course of the year, and it didn't seem like much money because it was only one book a week. Pretty clever promotion. Anyhow, if it happened after 1987, you were SOL. The fall of Communism had to wait until 1996 (when we got a computer with Encarta). I also inherited a very old (early 1970s) set of Brittanica Junior encyclopedias when my aunt and uncle moved out of town in about 1992. Those were even more fun because there was an extremely detailed Atlas.

[Wake Me Up When The Hard Border Ends]

All my high school yearbooks (2004-2008), no almanacs.

[opebo]

We had loads of that stuff as kids - several different almanacks, yearbooks, encyclopedias, atlases etc.  Both my brother's and my room, and the living room walls were lined with that stuff.  That, and as far back as I can remember my mother drove us to the public library (two different ones) two or three times a week!  I suppose I forget to appreciate just how much effort and expense went into my youth.  Thanks mom and dad!

[Hatman 🍁]

Several World Almanacs, a "US Almanac" from the early 1990s, several Canadian Global Almanacs (no longer in print), a Canadian Directory & Almanac from 1963, and a 10 year old Encyclopedia Britannica Almanac.