We may have the internet today for a lot of our Identfaction Purposes, but books are an integral part of our knowledge, our brain is a complicated piece of equipment, one that’s far superior to the limitations of a computer, and as such, it needs feeding constantly, just by flicking through any book the eyes are scanning the words and pictures, looking for the smallest detail, after a while, you will ask yourself “how did i know that”
When you start collecting books of any subject, it becomes a passion & a conversation piece, the hours of love and dedication that goes into writing any book shows the Author has a belief, not only in himself but the book that is being put together piece by piece, the subject is irrelevant as is the Author, because each writer must have the same dedication & belief to see the book through to the end, it is these books we can use to either sit down and relax with or use for further study, read any classic book from Charles Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson, or the Educational works of the 18th and 19th century, many are to be had today as a PDF and cost little or no money at all, yet the works have not been upgraded or rewrote because someone put the time in to get the facts and figures right…
Some of the pictures or line drawings within these books are a bit off and not up to, today’s, standards, but we are talking over a hundred years ago, & without man’s technological advancement of today, i for one think they did pretty good… Many years ago i started to collect PDF’s as a source of information, but i am fully aware that someone has spent time and effort creating these works, hence why i have created several websites dedicated to these Authors, many authors who over time has written the same subject as others, with or without a cross-reference, but are equal in their own right, and as such are feathered alongside each other in various websites… i know we get visits from the academics, archaeologists & metal detectorists alike, all looking for that illusive identification of the subject matter in hand…
Many Books on this page will already be available through links…
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