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My dad had a good collection of encyclopaedias: general and specific fields. So I grew up reading encyclopaedias and less of novels as my peers. I virtually read through the entire 16 volumes of the Harver Junior World
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but more because almost all related articles were hyperlinked. The irresistible urge to learn more about a subject would sometimes lead me into the ‘wilderness.’ More amazing was the fact that it had up-to-the-minute information. I remember marvelling at how they were able to achieve it.
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became an addiction such that sometimes I would spend all-night in an internet café reading randomly through articles. But I didn’t start editing until 2009.
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was handy when I needed to understand diseases and medical terminologies. Other encyclopaedias I used sometimes were
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to understand. I also read the Life Cycle
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