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Message: <blockquote data-quote="solifuge" data-source="post: 3614914" data-attributes="member: 138661">Thanks to everyone who continues to have me in their minds after all this time!The book is still in development limbo.  I have to reconceptualise it because every book shop is filled with dumbed-down books that have basically been cobbled together by general-interest authors with access to the internet but no specialised skills. I was recently given a book on birds as a gift that was filled with  lots of 'fun factoids' of very little use and many incorrect bits of basic info .....So I have had a bit of a crisis of confidence since I am very keen indeed not to produce something similarly worthless - the material from Bird Forum has been, of course, of inestimable value but the content I picked up online to fill it out was of variable quality and I haven't the resources to backstop everything I find there.In fact the 'Abdim' labyrinthine debate is an object lesson in the dangers of picking out a bit of information and trying to come up with a definitive piece of material. So for the time being I am parking this book until I can find a way to make it a much better product.</blockquote>