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Bob Wearing’s ‘Essential Woodworker’ is the bible. I see a lot of parallels between his techniques and Paul’s. I also very much admire David Charlesworth and Garrett Hack’s works. I have found most of the Taunton books to be complete rubbish, and are simply collections of articles from Fine Woodworking. Better to subscribe (I don’t any more) and read the articles of interest to you.
Chris Becksvoort’s ‘Shaker Legacy’ is well worth acquiring- one of my favourites. I like furniture design books such as Chippendale’s ‘Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker’s Director’ and Hepplewhite’s ‘Guide.’ Breon’s ‘Ruhlmann: Genius of Art Deco.’ David Savage’s ‘Furniture with Soul.’ The Met Museum’s book on Phyfe from their exhibition last year. I am looking forward to Tolpin and Walker’s upcoming book.
I usually take out books from the library, photocopy interesting pages and return them. There are simply too many books to buy them all.