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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 4014513, member: 19463&quot;]The effect of digital photography on our hobby can not be dismissed.&nbsp; Being able to view enlarged details without screening for traditional book printing and the low relative cost per image is wonderful.&nbsp; There is one other thing to consider.&nbsp; I previously maintained that a problem with books was that they can promote errors for decades after the scholarship on the matter has been updated while websites are relatively easy to correct and update.&nbsp; I was correct then but now discover that I am part of the problem rather than part of the solution.&nbsp; My website contains errors ranging from typos to ID issues due to new scholarship but I no longer recall the procedure for updating the site.&nbsp; Websites can disappear without notice and in so doing can clean up such trash but material good and bad can remain untended for what seems like eternity.&nbsp; I would suggest that everything posted should disappear after a set time but the fact remains that 99% of what was posted on my site twenty years ago is as valid as it was then.&nbsp; This alone has kept me from taking down my site.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>What it comes down to is any information source must be read with a critical eye and it is up to the reader to check facts lest they lead to error.&nbsp; Wikipedia, for example, allows many people access to maintain the material and update as needed.&nbsp; Most of our individual sites, mine, Valentinian&#039;s, CNG, Coin Talk and many others, serve at the mercy of forces the reader may not understand.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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