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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Poec54" data-source="post: 42235" data-attributes="member: 3524"><p>Yes and no.  There's great info on anatomy and biology, but some of the species and care info is obsolete and disputed by most big collectors and breeders.  Stan's focus, and most of his collection, was docile NW terrestrials, which used to dominate the hobby in decades past, but now represent a small fraction of it.  Tropicals (NW and OW) have surged in popularity in the last 15 years, and Stan never got to own most of them (he sold his collection in the mid 2000's, as new introductions were pouring into the US from Europe).  There's a 4th edition in the works that is hoped to be revamped with fresh, new info bringing the book up-to-date with today's hobby.  The hobby's a moving target, things are constantly changing.  No book can keep up with it.  Most people want to know about the spiders they have now, not the limited number that were standards in the hobby 20 years ago.</p></blockquote><p></p>