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<p>[QUOTE="BooksB4Coins, post: 2057205, member: 36230"]Perhaps the saying should be updated to "read the book before buying the coin", and for those references not available free online, perhaps following in dear Timmy's footsteps and stealing them on the pirate bay could also be part of bringing it into the 21st century. While you may have been able to use a book available online for free to complete your Franklin set, this does not mean the same can be done with every series. Perhaps you would like to try your hand at LS50Cs by die marriage; the WB book, which is indeed a fine general reference, is also available on the dlrc blog site, so there would be no need to waste money foolishly on a book, right? That would be so 20th century, or would be until you realize that for such an area of collecting, Mr. Bugert's print-only series is ideal and worth every cent (for a single volume or all). Sure.. you might be able to gather bits and pieces of necessary/useful information here and there online, but to some people time is money and being penny wise and pound foolish is, well, foolish. The point is that for every instance in which someone arguably has not needed to purchase a book, physical or digital, there will be another in which buying a book was, or at least could have been the wise choice. The people on this forum, myself included, who have written of certain books paying for themselves many times over are not making it up; it happens, has long happened, and can easily still happen today.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="BooksB4Coins, post: 2057205, member: 36230"]Perhaps the saying should be updated to "read the book before buying the coin", and for those references not available free online, perhaps following in dear Timmy's footsteps and stealing them on the pirate bay could also be part of bringing it into the 21st century. While you may have been able to use a book available online for free to complete your Franklin set, this does not mean the same can be done with every series. Perhaps you would like to try your hand at LS50Cs by die marriage; the WB book, which is indeed a fine general reference, is also available on the dlrc blog site, so there would be no need to waste money foolishly on a book, right? That would be so 20th century, or would be until you realize that for such an area of collecting, Mr. Bugert's print-only series is ideal and worth every cent (for a single volume or all). Sure.. you might be able to gather bits and pieces of necessary/useful information here and there online, but to some people time is money and being penny wise and pound foolish is, well, foolish. The point is that for every instance in which someone arguably has not needed to purchase a book, physical or digital, there will be another in which buying a book was, or at least could have been the wise choice. The people on this forum, myself included, who have written of certain books paying for themselves many times over are not making it up; it happens, has long happened, and can easily still happen today. .[/QUOTE]
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