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There is knowledge to be gained from the pages of books.

In the days before the internet, motorcycling knowledge came to us in two ways: directly by interacting with people, or through the pages of magazines or books.

Though it seems all knowledge is available at the press of a button these days, it is a transient, fleeting kind of knowledge, whereas the printed word is always there, it doesn't become lost in the cyber world or get corrupted digitally - it carries on.

I daresay there are those who don't have books, professing such antiquated methods of knowledge retrieval systems operated manually by turning an actual page are unbelievably outdated ... but the fact remains, books are still around, still being published and still being popular.

At the time of going to press, the Ukis in the middle of the coronavirus lockdown - other countries suffering varying degrees of restrictions too.

With the Government's instruction to stay at home there's a need for some motorcycling interaction and while we can't ride our bikes in whatever discipline we favour, there is no reason we can't read about it.

There's also the option to take out a subscription to your favourite magazine of course, see pages 42/43 for the best way to get Cdbdelivered to your door.

In the meantime, here's a selection from the editor's bookshelf, most are current and freely available from their publisher; however, there is the odd one from my youth, or even my father's, so may take a bit of sourcing!