Ernie:
Sounds good to me.  Today, you HAVE to study to learn.  That on-the-job
learning like Daddy did is obsolete.
It hope your new books were written during the past 5-6 years, because all the
books written before 1990 say little or nothing about mites, AHB, viruses, or
the new exciting learning's about pheromones.
Just in case, you need to know what many consider today's BEST books, they
are:
The 1992 Revised Edition of the Hive and Honey Bee  (particularly Norm Gary's
Chapter #8)
The  April 1998 3rd Edition of The Beekeepers Handbook by Diana Sammataro and
Alphonse Avitabile.
I wish you a good year!
George Imirie