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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2421670, member: 19463&quot;]I really hate to have to disagree with this one.&nbsp; I have a reasonable sized library, perhaps 2% as large as Warren&#039;s, and have quite a few books that are quite out of date.&nbsp; Some were out of date when they were published.&nbsp; Some retain a lot of useful information even when they have been pushed aside by newer works.&nbsp; There are several volumes on Roman Republicans that were set back a notch by Crawford which may soon itself be getting a bit old in some respects.&nbsp; Warren&#039;s list includes the new Hoover Greeks.&nbsp; What does that set do to your previous go-to Greek volumes?&nbsp; RIC V part 1 is something of a joke when you look at the online</p><p><a href="http://www.ric.mom.fr/en/home" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.ric.mom.fr/en/home" rel="nofollow">http://www.ric.mom.fr/en/home</a></p><p>which may never be a paper publication.&nbsp; I&#039;d say the same for RIC IV were it not for the fact that there is nothing in print better (BMCRE V is nice in some ways but includes a fraction of the coins I know to be in the British Museum collection today not to mention some private collections.</p><p><br /></p><p>For years I have owned and loved my Svoronos, Corpus on Athens but I am less than certain just how much of the organization is as good as it was 40 years ago when it was last(?) revised.&nbsp; The photos are not to be found elsewhere.</p><p><br /></p><p>This last line could be applied to the massive Eastern books by Mitchiner.&nbsp; I was led to believe that much of his information was dated when the ink was still wet but they remain all I have on so many coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>The point is these books are wonderful but like many of us are getting a bit long in the tooth and need to be read but not worshiped. When Ras published his ERIC II, I was asked if I would review it.&nbsp; After some of the things I said about ERIC I, I was surprised.&nbsp; He said then that I was the only one still writing book reviews.&nbsp; I say this to all of you:&nbsp; Write some reviews on the books that you consider worth owning or, better yet, the ones you feel you should not have purchased.&nbsp; Places like Amazon books send requests to &#039;review&#039; books before a normal human being could possibly have read the thing.&nbsp; We see fluffy reviews based on an hour&#039;s perusal.&nbsp; Who will tell me why I want to buy Hoover (never seen in person).&nbsp; JA&#039;s paragraph from this thread remains the best I have seen on the matter.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>If you believe in books that support your hobby, consider writing a few pages of in depth &#039;why&#039; and &#039;how&#039; these books are worth the not small cost they represent.&nbsp; Who knows, perhaps Ras will send you the review copy of ERIC III.&nbsp; I keep saying I will do more.&nbsp; Maybe?</p><p><a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/book.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/book.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/book.html</a></p><p><a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/vf.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/vf.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/vf.html</a></p><p><a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/board/index.php?topic=65466.0" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/board/index.php?topic=65466.0" rel="nofollow">http://www.forumancientcoins.com/board/index.php?topic=65466.0</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Edit: Thanks, THC.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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