Running a Stainz afer 35+ years...

[James Day]

Some of the Best History has been documented by Klaus from Traincraft in USA, If you read some of his history blogs there's a lot of odd things you find out

Try here http://lgbyarner.blogspot.co.uk/sea...-max=2014-01-01T00:00:00-08:00&max-results=28

Thanks Sparky,

A good read. maybe Dan is right?

James

 

[Zerogee]

Yes, many thanks for that link, Sparky - looks like an excellent resource, I will have to find myself a few hours to read through the blog....

I will have to shut the (home) office door and put up the sign that the Memsahib kindly made for me: "If it's not bleeding and you can't smell smoke, then GO AWAY!"

Jon.

 

[Madman]

And yet in the UK, sales of printed books are rising and those of e-books falling

The advantage of paper books is that once history has been printed, it cannot be changed, until a new history book is written. But the old one is still there to correct any changes made in the new copy. My blood pressure rises when I watch documentaries, etc, about things I lived to see growing up. I suspect those that came before us may have had similar feelings, but we didn't have the electronic capabilities back then to alter events, like we do now.

 

[James Day]

The advantage of paper books is that once history has been printed, it cannot be changed, until a new history book is written. But the old one is still there to correct any changes made in the new copy. My blood pressure rises when I watch documentaries, etc, about things I lived to see growing up. I suspect those that came before us may have had similar feelings, but we didn't have the electronic capabilities back then to alter events, like we do now.

That is true, but myths and innacuracies can often be perpetuated due to lazy research......

Conversely, although we like to think of stuff posted on the internet as being there forever, it is only there for as long as whoever posted it supports it.

However a WIKI type history has the potential to be constantly updated and added to as new research and discoveries come to light. You can't do that with my venerable Greenburg Guides....without lots of scribbles in the margins!

In my experience, there nothing quite like publishing anything to render it out of date, often immediately and as a consequence of the publication itself!

James