Book Recommendations

I'm still in the preperation stage of getting chooks next year and whan I read the forum I make notes of advice that I think I might need to recall in the future, the old brown matter is not as good as it was.

Winterval is not far away and I've been asked what I would like and one of the things I'd really like is a good book on chicken keeping, something I can pick up and easially find the information I need. Like most subjects I suspect some books are better than others, and rather than make any costly mistakes I was hoping someone could reccommend a good all round book that they've found helpful.

Thankyou in anticipation 

I can recommend this book, too, just read it, so everything is fresh on mind and it was really helpful and contained almost every question I could think of to get started.

The Katie Thear book is great enough information without blinding you with sccience and a great price

Haynes chicken manual,lots of good info(yes it is the same people that do the car manuals) 

I've got a few books but then realised I need one about my particular breed.

I agree with you for off-the-wall questions but a book such as Katie Thears is small and reasonably priced (will not take up much room on your bookshelf) and is indispensable when starting out. It is much quicker to leaf through a book to check/look something up especially when you start to know your way around the book.
Much of the detail is also hard to get from the internet - how do you know when it is missing? It is more likely to be there in a properly researched book. How often have you needed to go back and look again at something that you Googled and could not find it? Just my opinion of course

Good luck with the new chooks