@7b682b86 My SIL has remarked that the first time she met me, roughly age 9, I was parked in the backyard on a summer day with a stack of encyclopedias on either side of my lounge chair that I was quite obviously reading.

So cheers from another encyclopedia reader 😆 

 @3b678e16 Yay! I'd sit on the floor, contemplate the collection, and decide what letter I wanted to explore, but always bewaring the second S volume because there were pictures of spiders. 😆