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Frank wrote:


> For those on the list who haven't explored old editions of the
> Nautical Almanac, collecting old almanacs might sound like a waste of
> time; after all, modern software can tell us where the Moon was in
> 1818 much more accurately and easily than a contemporary almanac. But
> the prefaces and especially the appendixes back then contained
> interesting descriptive and explanatory information, as well as
> complete articles on various astronomical and navigational topics.

Robert responds.

Call me a waster of time. I have Nautical Almanacs dating back to 1909.

Saving the old ones is understandable, however, my biggest problem is that I
cannot bear to part with my contemporary almanacs so they occupy a lot of
valuable shelf space. Fortunately, my wife, who already thinks I have too
many books, is not very well schooled on astro-navigation so she has no
inkling of the profligate waste of space that is going on right under her
nose.




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