New Canadian Coin Books By New Author?

I haven't read it and I am not about to buy it.
She published at least four "complete" coin guides, one for each lower denomination, in a space of less than six months. Makes me think she relied heavily on AI, and we know how unreliable that is when it comes to numismatic information.
Here is her site
https://canadian-coins.ca/books
Less than thirty seconds into one of her blogs I learned that she recommends pinging silver coins on a wood surface. I'm not going to rush out to buy a piece of plywood to try this. That was enough for me to dismiss her.

I have ordered this book from Amazon and if I am not satisfied I will return it by January 31 and let you know why. It should be in my mailbox by Wednesday.

I know nothing about Ms. Barclay's books, so I do not know of they were AI generated or not. I am wondering, how many Canadian nickels exist dated 1858 to 1921?

As any AI numismatic books are generated, I will be very interested in how well, or badly, they handle the copyrighted material of other numismatic authors. I will reserve judgment, but I am not optimistic on that point.

And images. Assembling the permissions for a numismatic book can be a real chore.

Just to give one example, my book Past & Nearly Perfect had many pictures of rare Canadian coins in it. I owned maybe 40% of the coins and took the pictures of them, so I own the rights to those photos. I also used pictures owned by The Royal Mint Museum, British Museum, Heritage, PCGS, the Bank of Canada, the British National Archives, and others. In each of those cases, I obtained written documentation (emails, license agreements, etc.) granting me permission to use them. In some cases, I had to pay the owners for those permissions.

In the end, I bound the permissions into a booklet (about 40 pages worth) and gave a copy to the publisher, the RCNA, so they would understand the copyright status for those elements of the book.

My initial impression of AI generated work is that it makes a travesty of copyright law and conventional plagiarism standards. It will take years for the courts to catch up with the mess, if they ever do catch up. That is what AI works rely upon.

That is what all the courts need to decide.

Well said.

Because of course.

Well, Randy, we should assign you as the doctor to dissect the verbiage and photos on one of your favorite subjects.... Vicky 5 cent varieties. Is your latest coin in there? What are the author's credentials? Thank you for getting the book to clue us in.