I agree it needs a new approach and a different set of rules, and I take your point that it needs someone to take the task on.
> Hi Jdal,
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> Where I have a problem for the book is:
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> Finding out where they are and documenting them is a nightmare.
Why do you need to know where they are? You don't care where the physical books are, you are merely documenting their existence.
> Over half the ones I have, are no longer avaiable on the web, its very much here to day gone tomorrow.
As above, the equivalent would be "out of print" I suppose.
> The book had to have boundaries, thats why guides in journals have also been excluded.
Ah well, that's the tough bit. I have no idea where to draw boundaries for this stuff.
> If someone else wants to take on the task of documentingg downloads etc, I will happily suport them, it just wont be me thats doing it.
Ditto