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This is the last post I'm doing about this.

I would love a book like this! It’s pretty intimidating to start this kind of hobby because it’s a hit or miss with the public and there’s so many different ideas on what works best for cleaning, etc. that you just don’t know where to start. It’d be quite educating and fun to read about other people’s experiences with collecting! And you could read where you’re likely to find a certain animal you’ve been searching for~

Exactly, I remember how overwhelmed I felt when I started collecting!  I had so much trouble finding good reference material in books and even on the internet.  I've learned a lot since but I'm sure I still probably don't know half as much as other bone collectors.  And that's a great point about knowing where you can find certain animal bones, I'll keep that in mind!

I'm figuring/hoping this will turn into a kind of community project where I can get as much input from other bone collectors as I can so we can have this huge source of combined knowledge.  I ought to really start jotting all these ideas down.

Sounds like an awesome idea, I’d definitely buy it, it’s always great to find more bone collectors! You may want to check out a book called The Beginners Guide to Skull Collecting by Michael James Fox, it’s only available through Blurb though

Ooh I'll have to look into that book.  I have a couple bone reference books but only one of them talks about collecting and even then it's only briefly.

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That’s a pretty cool idea. Maybe show how different people from different areas collect would be interesting. Desert collector here. :p

I don't think I could do it all by myself because my experiences are limited to bone collecting in the area I live in and I feel that a book like this would need information from as many sources as I can find which, of course, could potentially be all you other bone collectors on tumblr.

That being said, I'm also completely enamored with the nickname "Bone Queens" coined (I'm assuming) by forestferncreations and I thought maybe we could incorporate that somehow and have little biographical blurbs about each of us individually (but with as much anonymity as you desire) so as you read you also get to know some of the people who collect bones and who contributed to this potentially super-awesome book.

I guess in a way not only would it be a cool project and a good reference for other people, but it would also be an interesting way to dispel some of the misconceptions people have about bone collectors, bone collecting, and its associated hobbies.  Personally, I've had people go so far as to tell say they thought I would end up being a serial killer which I not only find really offensive but really disappointing that people could get such a negative idea about what bone collecting is and who the people are that do it.

I have relented and decided to upload these pictures semi-separately because tumblr hates my soul.

I had the exact same problem with uploading only 4 photos; I ended up restarting my computer and it worked then :)

Yeah I finally just took pictures because I'm procrastinating doing my homework.

Procrastinating so hard that I'm doing something else that I've been procrastinating doing so I don't have to do the thing I'm currently procrastinating.