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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 2404298, member: 112&quot;]Doug I agree with your comments, to a degree. There are many books that are &quot;incomplete&quot; to say the least, and they leave a lot of questions unanswered. Especially those questions dealing with what you called &quot;the whys, hows, and other side trips&quot;. But there are some that deal with those things very well. Of course the only way to find that out is to have a good bit of knowledge about&nbsp; the books themselves. There are some books that can even be considered all but worthless.</p><p><br /></p><p>So how does one deal with this problem ? It&#039;s kind of like anything else, you have to do a certain amount of research on your own, and/or buy more books. What I have found over the years is that one wishing to become knowledgeable in any given subject dealing with coins does not need just a book or two, they need a library. This book will have bits and pieces and that book will have other bits and pieces. And not it&#039;s not just a question of the &quot;old&quot; not having what you want, or the &quot;new&quot; having it. It&#039;s more that both will have information that neither of the others do. </p><p><br /></p><p>Now web sites, web sites are wonderful things, they truly are ! They have a done a great deal to advance the knowledge of numismatics in just the few short years that they have existed. But they suffer from the same problems that books do. They have bits and pieces, but seldom have everything. And like books they repeat bad information over and over again, but with web sites it is far more widespread than it is with books. And web sites have their own unique problem - they go &quot;poof&quot;. One day they are there, and the next day they are not there any longer. This is because web sites are dependent upon the person who created them continuing to pay for their very existence. Quit paying the fees and &quot;poof&quot;, they&#039;re just gone. While books, once created they are just there. Of course finding them can be a problem at times.</p><p><br /></p><p>Web sites can also have a distinct advantage, certain web sites anyway. This one for example, CoinTalk. As I said above - &quot;that&#039;s probably the best advice you&#039;ll get&quot;. And I said that because this web site is like having it all rolled into to one. For here you have a large group of people, many of whom own books, and many of whom know of various web sites. Combined they create an immense virtual library of information, information that can be and is readily shared with others.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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