
The first place you'll catch me when visiting a new town or city is usually a local coffeehouse, kind of absorbing the city through sitting at that cafe.
Why would anyone read a reference work cover-to-cover? Aren't they designed to be consulted selectively, at need? Isn't that why so many of the old standards--the Oxford English Dictionary, the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, and the Encyclopedia Britannica--have reinvented themselves as searchable web...