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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;krispy, post: 854562, member: 19065&quot;]There&#039;s so much more information available and constantly being updated and easier to access on online without even buying or ordering a reference book that electronic or digital sources seem the only way to go. Numismatic books do take up a lot of space in ones home or shop/office. Older books have lower quality reproductions and most paper books are outdated prior to reaching the store shelves, plus information such as values is almost pointless to put in printed books because of the way the market moves online-- so much more quickly than the pre-digital era. </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m more than ready for digital formats, online sources, discs (even this seems outmoded) and especially PDFs. I recently got a free ANA membership and immediately set up the e-Numismatist going without the offered printed copy. It&#039;s a great thing, every bit as full of information and easily readable as the magazine. It&#039;s easy to download and take with your or share in email. If you have trouble with eyesight you can zoom in and read in large print, print out a copy of a page only if you need it for something. I also subscribe to Coin World online and read their digital magazine. I only wish more of the Coin and Currency pubs would have full digital versions and allow downloads of the entire content in PDF form. I know most are concerned with copyright issues and controlling reproduction of their content but that is being shortsighted on the publishers behalf.</p><p><br /></p><p>There is also a certain environmental responsibility that many of us in this age have accepted by going to digital formats. Given that the hobby of coin collecting has a huge environmental impact from the metals mined and refined and the entire process of production and distribution of coins, special issues created and shipped in unique packaging for collectors, all the plastics of TPGs entering the world, transactions from auctions leading to transporting things we buy door-to-door to us and packed in physical materials that end up in the bin... there&#039;s just so much about coins alone that can be super bad for the environment that opting for digital format books, publications and such is the least we ought to consider doing to save a little on production costs as well as ecological impact.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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