Are the encyclopedia volumes worthless now?

[Alexandoy]

My uncle who has a set of encyclopedia spent big money for that collection. That is where I do my research when I was a student. In our country only the rich can have an encyclopedia set at home. Now that we are in the digital age what happens to those old books? Do they still have a value? Even our good old dictionary has no use anymore because it is quicker and more accurate to use the internet for the word meanings.

 

[nangk08]

Now everything is available at the click of the mouse. So people no longer need to own bulky volumes of encyclopedia that takes up lot of space. I am seeing more and more such hardly used volumes of richly illustrated encyclopedia in used books stores.