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<p>[QUOTE="Publius2, post: 8175720, member: 105571"]Short answer is yes. Longer is that I use the little spiral-bound Red Book because it's easy to carry. Then I have the Mega RB because it has a lot more information. Then I buy the Whitman books that are specific to my collecting interests. Plus, I buy specialty books to further augment the reference base at my fingertips.</p><p><br /></p><p>What I've found is that the specific issue Whitman books have more information than the Mega RB as you'd expect. In some cases, the Mega RB has information that is not in the specific issue books and vice versa. So, they are like a set of Venn diagrams that overlap maybe 90 to 95% but that non-overlap is sometimes either valuable or interesting or both.</p><p><br /></p><p>My default is to buy more books rather than less and the cost of the books is minor compared to what I put into coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Publius2, post: 8175720, member: 105571"]Short answer is yes. Longer is that I use the little spiral-bound Red Book because it's easy to carry. Then I have the Mega RB because it has a lot more information. Then I buy the Whitman books that are specific to my collecting interests. Plus, I buy specialty books to further augment the reference base at my fingertips. What I've found is that the specific issue Whitman books have more information than the Mega RB as you'd expect. In some cases, the Mega RB has information that is not in the specific issue books and vice versa. So, they are like a set of Venn diagrams that overlap maybe 90 to 95% but that non-overlap is sometimes either valuable or interesting or both. My default is to buy more books rather than less and the cost of the books is minor compared to what I put into coins.[/QUOTE]
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