Their folks have never gazed with pride on a new set of bound encyclopedias on the bookshelf.  (Class of 2016, #18)

The final edition of Encyclopedia Britannica was published in 2010 and the print version of that encyclopedia wasn’t discontinued until 2012. World Book Encyclopedia is still available as bound volumes.

Bound encyclopedias were common in the 1970s and 1980s when the parents of the Class of 2016 were growing up, thus many of them likely had bound encyclopedias on their bookshelf.