Re: is rett_thiele signed up?

Hi Amara,

> I would think Burma and India would be the ideal place to look for
> such books, perhaps more than Thailand, given their familiarity with
> the Roman script.  I will ask some friends to help look in other
> bookshops here as well, of course,

I've already been enquiring about such books in India and Sri Lanka,
and plan to do the same for Burma and perhaps even Cambodia. This is
all part of a project of mine to compile a list of printed Pali texts
on the Pali language, availability, and how to get them. There would
be a resource page for anyone interested in acquiring such books. But
I'm afraid it's not going to be easy because of the language barrier
and the rarity of such books. I will keep working on it though but it
will take time.

To look for titles and their publishers, the online catalogues of
major university libraries are quite helpful. I don't know if there
are any such for Thai universities. I found out that the National
Library of Thailand does not have an online catalogue of their books
and even if they did I probably couldn't use it because it'll probably
be all in Thai!

I really appreciate your effort and hope you will continue to be on
the lookout for anyone who may know quite a bit more about such books
in Thailand. There's no hurry.

Best wishes,
Jim