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Originally Posted by GORDON STREETER
A lot of bookshops have closed down with computers/tablets etc doing the damage and DVDs are becoming a thing of the past when you can put hours of films on a memory stick and plug it in the tele.
It's progress I'm afraid as you can get just about any information on line now and specialist books are in the minority !
I have still got stuff that cost thousands of pounds years ago SLR cameras/reel to reel tape recorders etc that were made obsolete by the Digi age.
One thing is we can still read a normal book I suppose !
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Gordon not wishing to contradict your observations which are, for the most part, spot on. However the internet has a few issues too, particularly if one goes back a few years.
Recently I was writing a series of pieces for my blog about some of the races in the ALMS during the first three seasons. 1999 and 2000 no problem as I have the yearbooks but by 2001 and 2002 Don had decided that even he could not afford to burn through the cash like he been doing. So trying to find reports of what actually happened as opposed to relying on my increasingly fuzzy memory is actually very difficult.
Motorsport.com's archives are a bit of a mess since their relaunch, SpeedTV.com has vanished, DailySportsCar.com was launched in 2002 but all the posts from that year were lost when a server that was backed up failed and then we discovered no backup!
The official site of both the race and Series are long gone, as are many of those who took part, the whole thing turned into a real detective excercise, I got there in the end.
The other problem is that not everything you read on the internet can be trusted. Books are not dead yet................