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Subject: Bird guide design
From: Paul Taylor <>
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 19:28:26 +1100
On 12/01/2011 6:50 PM, Carl Clifford wrote:
Perhaps the publishers are believers in the concept of built-in obsolescence. The average field guide only just manage to survive 2 complete drenchings.

Given regular avian taxonomy changes, that's probably a reasonable innings
for a field guide.  ;-)

e-Ink viewers like the Kindle are certainly interesting technology, but until a high quality colour version is available paper-based books will be with us for
some time yet.

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