Reddit reviews Spiders and Their Kin: A Fully Illustrated, Authoritative and Easy-to-Use Guide (A Golden Guide from St. Martin's Press)
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The identifying features of spiders are more subtle than they are for birds or butterflies - like eye arrangements, length and number of hairs on their legs. Also, consider there are about 900 species of birds in the U.S. vs. about 3,000 spider species. Just trying to help you understand why you're having a hard time finding such a guide.
My favorite spider field guide is the Golden Guide to Spiders and their Kin. Though the book includes spiders worldwide, it focuses on American species, and the description of family features can inform ID anywhere. There is a 1990 edition available in full online. Some of the taxonomic names have changed since then, but you can get the idea. You can't beat it for the money.
I don't have this one, but browsing it, it looks pretty nice.
Otherwise, the technical standard is SONA.
Alternatively, invest in a camera: take pictures and share them with us -- we are always here to help. Bugguide.net has detailed descriptions at almost every taxonomic level.
Ohhh I would love that! I literally just built my first gaming desktop two days ago so perfect timing!
This would just absolutely petrify me O.o I hated just looking it up.
My steam account is momatt17 :)
Edit: Third thing...
Well, I bought this one a while back and it's been super handy
I don't know what digital formats may be available, but here are a few good ones: