Hi Blaise, in the last mail you expressed half of my thought.
<http://www.amazon.com/Butterflies-India-Nature-Guides-Thomas/dp/0195688015/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1259114942&sr=1-1> *Amazon* lists the following books. (which are too pricey). 1.Butterflies of India (Nature Guides)<http://www.amazon.com/Butterflies-India-Nature-Guides-Thomas/dp/0195688015/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1259114942&sr=1-1> by The Late Thomas Gay, Isaac Kehimkar, and Jagdish Punetha (Paperback - Oct 15, 2008) Buy new<http://www.amazon.com/Butterflies-India-Nature-Guides-Thomas/dp/0195688015/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1259114942&sr=1-1> : $10.95 2. The Fauna Of British India, Including Ceylon And Burma - Butterflies: Vol II<http://www.amazon.com/Fauna-British-India-Including-Ceylon/dp/1408632373/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1259114942&sr=1-2> by Charles Thomas Bingham (Paperback - Jan 31, 2008) Buy new<http://www.amazon.com/Fauna-British-India-Including-Ceylon/dp/1408632373/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1259114942&sr=1-2> : $26.99 3. Common Butterflies of India (Nature Guides)<http://www.amazon.com/Common-Butterflies-India-Nature-Guides/dp/0195631641/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1259114942&sr=1-3> by Thomas Gay<http://www.amazon.com/Thomas-Gay/e/B001HPN6R6/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_3?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1259114942&sr=1-3>, Isaac David Kehimkar, and Jagdish Chandra Punetha (Paperback - May 6, 1993) 3 used<http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/0195631641/ref=sr_1_olp_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1259114942&sr=1-3&condition=used>from $69.00 <http://www.amazon.com/Butterflies-Peninsular-India-K-Kunte/dp/8173713545/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1259114942&sr=1-4> 4. Butterflies of Peninsular India<http://www.amazon.com/Butterflies-Peninsular-India-K-Kunte/dp/8173713545/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1259114942&sr=1-4> by K. Kunte (Paperback - Feb 15, 2001) 7 new<http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/8173713545/ref=sr_1_olp_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1259114942&sr=1-4&condition=new>from $24.09 1 used<http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/8173713545/ref=sr_1_olp_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1259114942&sr=1-4&condition=used>from $24.04 5. Butterflies of India<http://www.amazon.com/Butterflies-India-Charles-B-Antram/dp/B00086S7OC/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1259114942&sr=1-5> by Charles B Antram (Hardcover - 1924) 1 used<http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B00086S7OC/ref=sr_1_olp_5?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1259114942&sr=1-5&condition=used>from $248.31 6. The Book of Indian Butterflies<http://www.amazon.com/Book-Indian-Butterflies-Isaac-Kehimkar/dp/0195696204/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1259114942&sr=1-7> by Isaac Kehimkar (Hardcover - Sep 30, 2008) Buy new<http://www.amazon.com/Book-Indian-Butterflies-Isaac-Kehimkar/dp/0195696204/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1259114942&sr=1-7> : $65.00 $56.36 But like you said "nor is anyone in my family owning oil fields in Alaska or Saudi Arabia :-)......". So you can download a few books from Archive.org, dli.iiit.ac.in or you wait for someone to send them to these site in future. A few can share pdfs, but which may inflame writers such as Arjan, KK, Isaac and lot others and who are part of this group. Or people can links of PDFs which can be downloaded later but the moderators won't be happy with that. And recently ButterflyIndia is trying to create a website on Indian Butterflies, which is hoped to be the last resource on Indian Butterfly in the near future. So that keeps people away from sharing books and pdfs. But you can't take the whole of website or the PDF with you in the jungle. Regards Chandan Jyoti Gogoi "If there is an exception to every rule, then every rule must have at least one exception, excepting this one" ...is there an exception to the rule that states that there is an exception to every rule? -- Enjoy
