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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;calcol, post: 3244610, member: 77639&quot;]Doug,</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve cheered every time the Newman Portal has digitized a new series of catalogs.&nbsp; I love carting off the old paper.&nbsp; Usually donate it to the rummage sales of the local library.&nbsp; Some gets donated to the ANA library; some will be sold via eBay.</p><p><br /></p><p>I download the catalogs in which I&#039;m interested in a couple of formats either from Newman or auction companies ... then out goes the paper copy if I have one.</p><p><br /></p><p>I consider the digital copies to be a safer long term storage medium than&nbsp; paper.&nbsp; If multiple back-ups are made, including off-site backups, there&#039;s little to worry about. Worse comes to worse, there will be other digital copies out there that can be reacquired much more quickly than paper could be replaced. Paper has its own vulnerabilities like theft, burning, insects, mold, water damage, degeneration of acid paper, UV fading, etc.</p><p><br /></p><p>In addition to compactness and security, digital has a lot of other advantages over paper.&nbsp; It&#039;s much easier and quicker to search.&nbsp; Image manipulation, including zooming, color adjustment, transparency adjustment, and half-toning, greatly facilitate coin identification and comparison.&nbsp; I&#039;ve been able to trace-back individual coins through decades of repeated sales by image searching and comparison.&nbsp; In some cases, I doubt it could have been done at all with paper or would have taken too much time.</p><p><br /></p><p>Cal[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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