Happily Ever After

Life in The Rural Retreat with a beautiful wife, three cats, garden wildlife, a camera, a computer – and increasing amounts about running

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Preserved For Posterity

by admin - 21:38 on 05 February 2012

The Bumper Book of Black Isle Snappery will be sent on its way to some prestigious libraries this week.

As was our legal obligation, the authors sent a copy to the British Library when The Great Work was published in March last year. Now the Agency for the Legal Deposit Libraries has exercised its right to claim copies for the five institutions it represents.

So lucky readers will soon be able to consult our tome at the Bodleian Library in Oxford University, the Cambridge University Library, the National Library of Scotland, the National Library of Wales, and Trinity College, Dublin.

As a result, says the ALDL website, deposited publications:

• Are available to the libraries' registered users.
• Are preserved for the benefit of future generations.
• Become part of the national heritage.

That seems the appropriate place for The Bumper Book; shame we have to send them free of charge. However, sales continue (although modestly at the moment – roll on the tourist season). We've now passed 1,400 copies and, with more than a month until our first anniversary, there's every chance of hitting the 1,500 target.

Will The Mystery Project be a similar success? Work has begun. Watch this space.

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