What birding books can do for you that apps cannot

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What birding books can do for you that apps cannot

I miss guidebooks. That’s a weird thing to say, considering I own most of them. It’s just that I primarily rely on apps and downloads for my birding resources in the field these days. My books remain on the shelf most of the time. I sometimes regret that. I don’t remember how old I was when I was gifted a used copy of “Birds: A Guide to the Most Familiar American Birds,” written by Herbert S. Zim in 1956. I cherished it for a few years, before a…