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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2710612, member: 19463&quot;]I have several of the new reprints of old books believing that paper was better than online copies of the same files.&nbsp; This includes volumes of BMC (Alexandria and Sicily) and some of harder to find Asian series.&nbsp; They are not totally worthless but they are in no case as valuable to me as I had hoped when compared to either more recent books (Emmett on Alexandria) or free online resources (the Magna Graecia site, CNG, acsearch, 100 others?).&nbsp; Don&#039;t count on the plates.&nbsp; Some are legible; some not.</p><p><br /></p><p>The problem I see with many books including those that are in print and not cheap is that you have to study up to separate the really good ones from the ones really not worth what you have to pay for them.&nbsp; You might make a profit selling your lightly used copy of classic books but what is the cash value of an expensive book like RIC when it is replaced by a new edition (Volume 1 and half of volume 2) with updated information and new numbers?&nbsp; What was the effect on the price of the books on coins of Alexander the Great when Price came out?</p><p><br /></p><p>Language is a small problem compared to bad information in whatever language it was written.&nbsp; There can be enjoyment in reading the old books but, old or new, read critically.&nbsp; Information that was wrong in 1917 is not improved in 2017, it is just in Public Domain.</p><p><br /></p><p>For the record, I like Cohen for the easy to follow numbering system even if he missed a few of the rare types and used a language not English (although Cohen French is about as easy as any foreign language book I have ever seen).&nbsp; I would not choose it over RIC, BMC or online resources but I do still enjoy having the eight volumes I have had for years.&nbsp; Now that it is free online, I suppose I would not buy it again but I&#039;m not throwing it out either.&nbsp; Is Babelon in the same category?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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