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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 1667634, member: 19463"]Tough love time: The main question we each might ask is: "I own ERIC (ERIC II, AORTA or all of them). Do I need ERIC III?" I must say that there is appeal in the rarity system as proposed but its value in a practical sense depends a great deal on the accuracy and completeness of the data collected. That will mostly depend on which resources are sampled to get the data and how they are ranked. Will it find a way to avoid duplications from one coin being listed a half dozen times before it finally sells just to be relisted again by the new owner? Will it cover private sales by dealers who do not do business online but have a significant impact on the supply of the highest and lowest priced coins? How will it avoid the 'problem' of RIC ratings where coins become R5 because of a moved dot which is of interest to a fraction of a percent of buyers but coins only slightly more common (we have seen five rather than one is 'slightly') codes out to be only R3 but there are a thousand buyers looking for the coin (I saw a Martinian at Baltimore). </p><p><br /></p><p>These questions will make or break the usefulness of the feature and, perhaps, make a difference on whether each of us wants to upgrade our ERIC's to the new version. I'd call the task Herculean bordering on impossible BUT I also believe that IF it can be done, there is <b>no one</b> more likely to pull it off than Ras. His past efforts have been impressive. This new one will be, I suspect, of a size that old guys like me will need help lifting. Will it fit my/our needs and make it a must have addition to the library or will it be like the size 18 shoes of a basketball hero: interesting that they exist but not a practical consideration for my needs? Time will tell; I wish Ras well. </p><p><br /></p><p>Concerns: My wife bought a Nook. Some books available are wonderful in the way they utilize the features; others are just pictures of paper pages. Is the numismatic market ready for an e-book fully indexed and cross referenced, searchable in both word and photos (obviously enlargeable and existing by the thousands) that will make us all wonder why we ever wanted those old fashioned paper things? Would the massive effort required to make the step into a fully featured ePub version be rewarded by cash sales? I have gone on record several times with my opinion that the era of paper for books is nearing a close. I wonder what book will go down in history as the last successful effort in the old format. Are we close to a place in publishing equivalent to the time when all those long distance telephone lines turned into scrap copper with the launch of a few satellites? My coin book collection occupies 20 feet of shelving and several boxes in the attic. I would love the whole thing to be converted magically into a resource as searchable as acsearch and Wildwinds. I'm old fashioned. I trust some people now young and tech-savvy will collect ancient coins in 2063 but I wonder what will be in the boxes in their attics. Crates of hard drives?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 1667634, member: 19463"]Tough love time: The main question we each might ask is: "I own ERIC (ERIC II, AORTA or all of them). Do I need ERIC III?" I must say that there is appeal in the rarity system as proposed but its value in a practical sense depends a great deal on the accuracy and completeness of the data collected. That will mostly depend on which resources are sampled to get the data and how they are ranked. Will it find a way to avoid duplications from one coin being listed a half dozen times before it finally sells just to be relisted again by the new owner? Will it cover private sales by dealers who do not do business online but have a significant impact on the supply of the highest and lowest priced coins? How will it avoid the 'problem' of RIC ratings where coins become R5 because of a moved dot which is of interest to a fraction of a percent of buyers but coins only slightly more common (we have seen five rather than one is 'slightly') codes out to be only R3 but there are a thousand buyers looking for the coin (I saw a Martinian at Baltimore). These questions will make or break the usefulness of the feature and, perhaps, make a difference on whether each of us wants to upgrade our ERIC's to the new version. I'd call the task Herculean bordering on impossible BUT I also believe that IF it can be done, there is [B]no one[/B] more likely to pull it off than Ras. His past efforts have been impressive. This new one will be, I suspect, of a size that old guys like me will need help lifting. Will it fit my/our needs and make it a must have addition to the library or will it be like the size 18 shoes of a basketball hero: interesting that they exist but not a practical consideration for my needs? Time will tell; I wish Ras well. Concerns: My wife bought a Nook. Some books available are wonderful in the way they utilize the features; others are just pictures of paper pages. Is the numismatic market ready for an e-book fully indexed and cross referenced, searchable in both word and photos (obviously enlargeable and existing by the thousands) that will make us all wonder why we ever wanted those old fashioned paper things? Would the massive effort required to make the step into a fully featured ePub version be rewarded by cash sales? I have gone on record several times with my opinion that the era of paper for books is nearing a close. I wonder what book will go down in history as the last successful effort in the old format. Are we close to a place in publishing equivalent to the time when all those long distance telephone lines turned into scrap copper with the launch of a few satellites? My coin book collection occupies 20 feet of shelving and several boxes in the attic. I would love the whole thing to be converted magically into a resource as searchable as acsearch and Wildwinds. I'm old fashioned. I trust some people now young and tech-savvy will collect ancient coins in 2063 but I wonder what will be in the boxes in their attics. Crates of hard drives?[/QUOTE]
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