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I know one person who did something like this, and I don't think they ever actually followed through on doing the reading part. I don't think encyclopedias are even supposed to be read that way - so based on the sample size of 1, then I would say don't do it.

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JFYI, the (particular) way the Britannica is (was) organized allows for reading it like a book.

There is a small "Micropaedia" where you look for a synthetic definition of something, that has references to one or more pages on the "Macropaedia" where the whatever you are looking for is talked about, but these are themed articles, they can be read as you would read an article on a newspaper or a chapter of a book.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microp%C3%A6dia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macropaedia

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