I found Slide's book, "Inside the Hollywood Fan Magazine", interesting and very informative. For those seeking contemporary information on silent film stars, the old fan magazines are a primary source, and it's nice to have some historical background on those publications and the writers. The book would have been much better with a slew of color covers, but that obviously would have raised the book's price too much. So anyone reading the book should also look at Lomazow's online book at
http://www.scribd.com/doc/8768287/Complete-Movie-Book
for its amazing selection of fan magazine covers.