Handboek Europese vogels (2 Viewers)

[James Lidster]

Did you know about this: Aves de Europa - Identificación de todas las especies y plumajes - Lynx Nature Books ?

Yes these are the same books, whilst we have been translating to English each chapter was also sent to Spain for translation,
Cheers
James

 

[Winterdune]

Is Lynx publishing the English version too?

 

[John Cantelo]

Is Lynx publishing the English version too?

Yes - see post 57 for the suggested publication date

 

[njlarsen]

Is an electronic version planned? With the criticism in an earlier post of small text, I could see an electronic version being the only one that would benefit me. I am not exactly 25 anymore.
Niels

 

[James Lidster]

Yes - see post 57 for the suggested publication date

No actually being published by Princeton, but it’s UK English,
Cheers
James

 

[James Lidster]

Is an electronic version planned? With the criticism in an earlier post of small text, I could see an electronic version being the only one that would benefit me. I am not exactly 25 anymore.
Niels

Nothing concrete but there have been discussions about electronic or an app, unfortunately I’m only involved in the translation and not those kind of decisions.
Cheers
James

 

[Butty]

With the criticism in an earlier post of small text . . .

English text runs out shorter than just about any major language except Chinese - so, one may hope that the designers of the English edition are being practical-minded enough to take advantage of the extra space available and use a larger body-text point-size than used for other languages.

 

[njlarsen]

Nothing concrete but there have been discussions about electronic or an app, unfortunately I’m only involved in the translation and not those kind of decisions.
Cheers
James

Well, we can hope ...
Niels

 

[nkbj]

I had a tweet yesterday informing me that "After 12 months the translations for Handboek Europese Vogels (ID Handbook of European Birds) by Nils van Duivendijk ... are done, fine-tuning and editing to come. Due autumn 2024" - just in time for my birthday I hope - fingers crossed!

John

My "local" bookshop has it listed for preorder with a release date (expected) of July 30th 2024: ID Handbook of European Birds (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)

 

[Winterdune]

Amazon UK has it for preorder with release date of September 3rd.

 

[nkbj]

Now we have the publication dates from Princeton University Press: ID Handbook of European Birds

August 6th in Europe (UK) and September 10th in the US.

 

[Crex67]

In the Netherlands they just released the fourth print. This one is slightly improved over the first three prints (adds some new illustrations and corrections) and adds a new chapter containing exotics. I think the addition of the new chapter is quite an addition, making this print more then a slightly improved print (in my opinion)
It made me selling my first print and buying the fourth print to be “up to date”
I’m curious if these latest changes will be available in the foreign releases also.

 

[James Lidster]

In the Netherlands they just released the fourth print. This one is slightly improved over the first three prints (adds some new illustrations and corrections) and adds a new chapter containing exotics. I think the addition of the new chapter is quite an addition, making this print more then a slightly improved print (in my opinion)
It made me selling my first print and buying the fourth print to be “up to date”
I’m curious if these latest changes will be available in the foreign releases also.

Yes they are, every time Nils updates something in the Dutch versions we made the same changes in the English.
Obviously there comes a point where the publishers won’t accept any more changes, but the English version has been constantly updated. At the same time it is being translated into Spanish by Marcel Gil and Dani Lopez, so if any interesting features, queries etc arose these have also been communicated to Nils.
Cheers
James