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Shorter Field Guides?

To: "Stephen Ambrose" <>, "John Leonard" <>, "Birding-aus" <>
Subject: Shorter Field Guides?
From: "Peter Shute" <>
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 20:24:21 +1000
Forgot about those.  A problem is that a huge amount of scanning, cropping and 
renaming of files would be involved, to the extent that I think it would be 
impractical for one person to do it for themself without being paid - they'd 
spend all their time creating it, rather than using it.

But because they'd be using other people's work, it would of course be illegal 
to sell it or even pass on to others for free.  So it's up to the publishers to 
create things like this.  I believe such things are available for US birds.

Peter Shute

Stephen Ambrose wrote on Wednesday, 16 July 2008 10:33 AM:

> Peter Shute suggested:
> "Better still might be to somehow get the whole lot onto a phone or
> pda."
>
> Or perhaps a PMP (portable media player, eg. iPOD). A PMP
> could play bird calls or display short videos of birds, as
> well as the usual still images and text, to aid in ID.
>
> I don't have the technological expertise to know if this is
> feasible, but I thought I'd put it out there as a suggestion.
>
> Stephen Ambrose
> Ryde, NSW


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