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Message:: [QUOTE="kaparthy, post: 682372, member: 57463"]Does size matter? Is bigger better? More in line with Speedy and GDJSMP, I have a large library, much of it in boxes because there cannot be enough shelf space.  Without auction catalogs, say, 200+ titles.  For one thing, I do not collect coins, etc., but, rather, write for publication.  So, the reference library is important. I also know a good book when I see one.  In addition to the classics for US -- Breen, Taxay, Bowers' Garrett -- and standards -- Pollock, Coin World Almanac -- I have been adding the new Whitman books.  I have those little black book on Alaska Bingles, Mexico, etc.  My mother (bless her soul) found for me a book on coins of Thailand.  Which comes to the other unasked part of the question.  As important as US Numismatics may be, many of my references are for Ancients, and other "Dark Side" topics.  I would have to include the three volumes on Wildcats: I have Indiana, Ohio and Wisconsin. I have a box of articles (not my own) from magazines, etc., that I refer to occasionally, and several folders on my computer, probably a dozen or more, subdirectories under "Coins" and others such as "Alexander" and "Owls" and "Wildcats."  Books more than coins have always been "who I am."  I accumulate things of interest, but I am not a collector.  I lack the "uninherited gene" the thing that makes a collector.  I don't need one of everything, a complete set, the best example.  For a guy who advocates laissez faire capitalism, I am not much of a trader: I do not buy or sell and when I do, I take a loss, no matter which side of the transaction I have.  I lack the "Ferengi lobes for commerce."  I read and I write.  And I do a lot of thinking.  I like going for long walks and long drives. What coins do you own?  OK... What books do you own? OK ...  What ideas have you had?[/QUOTE]

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