Do you know, authors who write actual books about factual events and make the effort to base everything on first-sources and paper research impress me, because just for doing even shallow articles in my career, I have had to do tons of research just to know basically what I'm writing about? This made me remember college - I was a Lit major, so it was nothing to have a research paper or more due every week, or perhaps an essay on something you had to read and criticize. Again, pre-Internet. It was standard procedure for me to have several books checked out of the library at any given time. Honestly, it's a good thing the Internet wasn't around then or I wouldn't have gotten much work done - LOL.