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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;physics-fan3.14, post: 2605857, member: 19165&quot;]Going with the &quot;why buy books?&quot; theme that this thread has evolved to: sure, there is a lot of info available on the web. </p><p><br /></p><p>But there is a lot of info that is not yet available on the web. </p><p><br /></p><p>And that is why I buy books. I know that there are a bunch of websites that have catalogued and reproduced a lot of the information available, but they still don&#039;t quite measure up to a good library. </p><p><br /></p><p>I actually hope that resources like the Newman Numismatic Portal make a lot of obscure and arcane references available. Things like old auction archives can be valuable resources - but realistically, we probably use them to find a single lot in a decade of catalogues. Do I want to buy an entire decade of auction listings to find the one lot that I&#039;m after? No, I&#039;d rather that was on a searchable website. This is the 21st century, and it makes sense for collectors to use technology. There will always be someone who wants the old catalogue or book because it is an old book - but the information in there is valuable as well.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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