"RedForeman ©®" wrote in message
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aren't all these articles, available somewhere on the net? In other
words,
why spend money, when any question that is asked, can be answered,
right
here, or by someone in this(these) groups?

Tanks, but no tanks... :-)

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| RedForeman ©® fabricator and creator of the ratbike streetfighter!!!

LOL, you're getting too cynical in your old age Red ;~) Books are good,
especially for topics which don't evolve at a fast pace. A filtration
article written in the 70s might be close to useless, but if the topic is
how to induce a species of fish to breed, then chances are good that it's
as valid today as it was then. In my experience, these dusty old volumes
often have gems of information which have been forgotten, or were just
not migrated up into electronic media.

When it comes to specific topics, the Internet has a lot of the sameness
copied back & forth, and while it's more current, the depth of experience
tends to be shallower (the last 10-20 years). I can often glean a lot
more information details from my collection of reference books. In the
future, I'm sure the internet will be a more reliable single source of
information, but until then, it 'skins' most topics, and much of the
'meat' remains on paper.
jmho
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