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With so much on the internet and more and more people learning how to use it every day; does anyone bother buying angling books anymore? Ytube and videos of just about everything under the sun and forums where you can find out just about anything; does anyone bother writing a good angling book now; are fewer being produced.
I always see them in junk shops but, they are all old, mainly pre the internet age. Apart from the odd specialist book, for example Mark Wintle's "Big Roach", a exception to the modern norm; is there any market for books.
If you do buy a book, do you download using something like Kindle rather than buy the real thing. When I was young and you wanted to learn something , you bought a book about it, nowadays all a youngster has to do is ask on a forum or type it into Google.
Some of my old angling books are a thing of joy, well written, well thought out and nothing quite matches them on the internet where things are generally quickly expressed, not much thought given to how well they are written or presented with little thought to any aesthetic pleasure to the reader. Not complaining, and its not always the rule however, are angling books dead, a thing of the past. And if so, is it a loss?
I always see them in junk shops but, they are all old, mainly pre the internet age. Apart from the odd specialist book, for example Mark Wintle's "Big Roach", a exception to the modern norm; is there any market for books.
If you do buy a book, do you download using something like Kindle rather than buy the real thing. When I was young and you wanted to learn something , you bought a book about it, nowadays all a youngster has to do is ask on a forum or type it into Google.
Some of my old angling books are a thing of joy, well written, well thought out and nothing quite matches them on the internet where things are generally quickly expressed, not much thought given to how well they are written or presented with little thought to any aesthetic pleasure to the reader. Not complaining, and its not always the rule however, are angling books dead, a thing of the past. And if so, is it a loss?
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