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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;treylxapi47, post: 1919817, member: 41863&quot;]I disagree with your opinion.</p><p><br /></p><p>So you are telling me that I cannot look at books that I have read (going further here and even zeroing in on the industry standard or how say QDB lays his books out), that have been successfully published, and cannot use that information to set up HOW I would want format mine? That using previously discovered information about the subject at hand and expanding on it is somehow not correct nor beneficial? I think not. </p><p><br /></p><p>Please dont sit here and think that I am under the impression that this will be some sort of breeze and easy to do. I have already acknowledged before even getting started that I am likely looking at 10+ years of work, but somehow I dont understand the scope of the project that I am about to undertake?!? How does that make sense? I understand its a HUGE project, but again writing isnt that difficult, researching, asking permission to use various bits from other folks, actually physically printing and publishing (if doing it yourself), and gathering all of the necessary pieces is the hardest part. Putting the thoughts on paper and in order will be the easiest as you just follow chronological order and continually refine the work.</p><p><br /></p><p>Let me ask another question from the authors in the group. Was each and every idea your own original work, or did you research and find common ideas that were already penned before you ever decided to jot down what you wanted published? If you say all of your work was original, then I would have to call that bluff. It may be written in such a way that makes the wording original, but I guarantee every author in the last 50 years used printed information from somewhere to gain the necessary knowledge to write about what they wanted to write. Unless of course you include fiction, but we are on the topic of numismatic related reference books.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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