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<p>[QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 4949181, member: 10461"]Yes, this is what I ended up doing as well. But now I don't even use them very much at all anymore. Instead, I just use Google searches for stuff on Numista and the NGC World Coin Priceguide, which is based off the Krause/Numismaster data. (But it's easier to find the right keywords to use in an Internet search when you already have some inkling of what you're looking for, obviously.)</p><p><br /></p><p>There is no need to have the thick paper books anymore, I suppose, but I think there was some value to flipping through those thin pages and looking at stuff that way. Having learned on the old physical, printed books, I wonder how different my early learning experience would have been if I'd had the digital versions at my fingertips in the early 1990s when I was making my first forays into World coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>The digital versions are certainly easier to carry around with you than those thick phone-book sized volumes were, there's no doubt about that![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 4949181, member: 10461"]Yes, this is what I ended up doing as well. But now I don't even use them very much at all anymore. Instead, I just use Google searches for stuff on Numista and the NGC World Coin Priceguide, which is based off the Krause/Numismaster data. (But it's easier to find the right keywords to use in an Internet search when you already have some inkling of what you're looking for, obviously.) There is no need to have the thick paper books anymore, I suppose, but I think there was some value to flipping through those thin pages and looking at stuff that way. Having learned on the old physical, printed books, I wonder how different my early learning experience would have been if I'd had the digital versions at my fingertips in the early 1990s when I was making my first forays into World coins. The digital versions are certainly easier to carry around with you than those thick phone-book sized volumes were, there's no doubt about that![/QUOTE]
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