mcarroll Posted November 6, 2022 Author Share Posted November 6, 2022 Tuned out there for a minute – sorry! LOL What a great score! Any chance you could post a snap or two from each one just to give an idea what each one it like? Pics they have or a good table of content shot....whatever make sense. 👍 Quote Link to comment
Tamberav Posted November 12, 2022 Share Posted November 12, 2022 Oh… I had no books when this thread was made but now I have several… grab them when I see a good deal. 3 1 Quote Link to comment
mcarroll Posted November 12, 2022 Author Share Posted November 12, 2022 2 hours ago, Tamberav said: Oh… I had no books when this thread was made but now I have several… grab them when I see a good deal. "Clownfishes" is a great find!!! (That collection is all pretty hot, really.) It was the first place I ever saw a picture of clownfish that showed their piranha teeth. Yeesh! No wonder the little b******* could draw blood when they bit me!! LOL-now. Not funny then!! 😂 Very nice!!!!! 3 Quote Link to comment
Tamberav Posted November 12, 2022 Share Posted November 12, 2022 7 hours ago, mcarroll said: "Clownfishes" is a great find!!! (That collection is all pretty hot, really.) It was the first place I ever saw a picture of clownfish that showed their piranha teeth. Yeesh! No wonder the little b******* could draw blood when they bit me!! LOL-now. Not funny then!! 😂 Very nice!!!!! This is on my list. It looks amazing. It is a new up to date book with correct coral names but spendy since no used ones around yet that I saw. Over 4000 images of corals, mostly from the wild instead of neon blue LEDs. https://reefbuilders.com/2020/11/30/indo-pacific-corals-a-new-coral-id-book-by-joe-rowlett/ 2 Quote Link to comment
Tamberav Posted March 4, 2023 Share Posted March 4, 2023 Picked up this for $20, I have a soft spot for wrasses 3 Quote Link to comment
StinkyBunny Posted March 5, 2023 Share Posted March 5, 2023 23 hours ago, Tamberav said: Picked up this for $20, I have a soft spot for wrasses His books were hard to come by for a while. One of my suppliers went out of business and I bought what she had and sold them all out at Christmas last year. 2 Quote Link to comment
Tamberav Posted March 5, 2023 Share Posted March 5, 2023 1 hour ago, StinkyBunny said: His books were hard to come by for a while. One of my suppliers went out of business and I bought what she had and sold them all out at Christmas last year. good to know, I may try and get some of the others... I thumbed through it and it seemed good. 2 Quote Link to comment
mcarroll Posted March 7, 2023 Author Share Posted March 7, 2023 I agree – good find!! I've never actually seen that one for sale! 🙂 1 Quote Link to comment
Tamberav Posted March 17, 2023 Share Posted March 17, 2023 Yup.. got some more. These popped up on eBay cheap 4 Quote Link to comment
mcarroll Posted March 17, 2023 Author Share Posted March 17, 2023 You're on a serous roll! 🙂 🙂 🙂 1 Quote Link to comment
StinkyBunny Posted March 17, 2023 Share Posted March 17, 2023 Definitely keep an eye on eBay, also Thrift Books for aquatic titles. I've picked up quite a few books on those 2 sites. 3 Quote Link to comment
mcarroll Posted October 24, 2023 Author Share Posted October 24, 2023 <BUMP> Just a note in appreciation of books and their high intrinsic value to our potential learning as compared with the videos that most noobs these days seem to use for getting started. My favorite example of an old book is Gosse's "A Handbook to the Marine Aquarium..." from the 1850's. More recent books (ie The Reef Aquarium series) contain a lot more detail in most cases – building on the content of older books, generally not contradicting them. But "more info" ≠ "better info". Because what aquariums need in order to be successful hasn't changed since the 1850's, the "old info" in the "old book" is still mostly fine. I was amazed at the quality of information in the "Handbook..." above, for example. It's dated in obvious ways – duh, it's 150+ years old – but even considering that, it's still better than whatever most noobs today use instead of reading. (The folks using that book in 1850's had better success than most noobs "learning" from videos today....and they had to DIY sooooo much.) The coolest part of that book may be it's short length – anyone could read that whole book in an hour or less. (Some parts will take longer to digest though.) Most video's are SO LAME by comparison. Most are literally filled with someone BS'ing and only if you are lucky do they contain a TINY amount of actual info. (Info which is often dubious in nature since the folks making the vids don't seem to read books either!) Sadly, even if the tiny bit of info is good, you still waste SO MUCH TIME trying to get to it – I don't understand how most folks justify the amount of time they waste on videos while looking for real info. Literally a "needle in the haystack" scenario...who would volunteer for this? In contrast, books are generally PACKED with info and have almost no noise – reading a book is like "taking the needles out of all the haystacks". 😉 That's the whole object of using a reference book! 1 Quote Link to comment
TheKleinReef Posted October 25, 2023 Share Posted October 25, 2023 22 hours ago, mcarroll said: The folks using that book in 1850's had better success than most noobs "learning" from videos today....and they had to DIY sooooo much.) SOURCE LOLLLL WHAT 1 Quote Link to comment
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