> instead of 50lbs of back-breaking books Are you joking? I carried one or two books from the locker to class, if that. > instead of spending an hour looking

> instead of 50lbs of back-breaking books Are you joking? I carried one or two books from the locker to class, if that. > instead of spending an hour looking at World Books I had a set of World Books. Looking things up in it usually meant encountering a number of other interesting entries in it. I never ever spent an hour looking up something. It is alphabetized, after all.