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Ignore-Amus
After Christmas I have read a few posts about those seeking bonsai books for Christmas. I thought hmmm... the recent thread about your three favorite books may have had something to do with this.
Not wanting to open a can of worms, I am left wondering if anyone out there has found anything really usefull in a book. I mean hundreds of dollars are spent on books, so can they be usefull?
Have you learned something that you have actually put to use?
Was it measurable and did you photograph its results?
How do bonsai books measure up? Are they written to generic for beginners or do they have the advanced stuff your looking for?
Would a bonsai book about special techniques for a specific task be more to ones liking? I find that most books spend way too much time on going over the basics too much. I mean you read one way to repot you have read them all. Beginning type books are more apt to attract a much larger portion of the reader population since it is new people we wish to attract with a book. people that have been in the hobby long enough begin to know who is who and will buy books based on a writers body of work over other things.
so bottom line...what niche does a book exactly fill in our hobby and why, meaning, will reading about it make you better at bonsai?
aghh, winter...Al
Not wanting to open a can of worms, I am left wondering if anyone out there has found anything really usefull in a book. I mean hundreds of dollars are spent on books, so can they be usefull?
Have you learned something that you have actually put to use?
Was it measurable and did you photograph its results?
How do bonsai books measure up? Are they written to generic for beginners or do they have the advanced stuff your looking for?
Would a bonsai book about special techniques for a specific task be more to ones liking? I find that most books spend way too much time on going over the basics too much. I mean you read one way to repot you have read them all. Beginning type books are more apt to attract a much larger portion of the reader population since it is new people we wish to attract with a book. people that have been in the hobby long enough begin to know who is who and will buy books based on a writers body of work over other things.
so bottom line...what niche does a book exactly fill in our hobby and why, meaning, will reading about it make you better at bonsai?
aghh, winter...Al