However, the physical nature of the encyclopedia was also its limitation. The sheer cost of printing thousands of pages meant the encyclopedia was often prohibitively expensive, restricting access to libraries, universities, and affluent families. Furthermore, the static nature of print meant that information could become outdated quickly, and the retrieval of information was bound by the speed of manually flipping through alphabetical indices.
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