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What say you old information seeking hound? Can’t get enough of Encyclopedia Britannica? That’s what the folks behind the venerable printed font of knowledge seem to think, as they’ve gone iPhone in their quest to enlighten. The publisher earlier this week announced its new iPhone edition.

The Britannica iPhone offering has been live for about two weeks now, letting users access "tens of thousands of articles." It is described by Britannica as boasting "a look and feel tailored to the
iPhone, with full-text searching, thousands of high-resolution thumbnails
that expand to full-size images, and page layouts optimized for cell phone
bandwidth.  It’s fully searchable and hot-linked, similar to Britannica’s
Web editions."