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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Andrew McCabe, post: 3504376, member: 90666&quot;]We all have our pet peeves. Here&#039;s one of mine. When a firm that sells middling quality coins, and with zero heritage or track records, decides to produce its catalogues in the most expensive possible hardback, complete with dust jacket and little ribbon for page marker. Here&#039;s why I have a beef about it: vendors have no idea what practical use we make of their catalogues, and softcover catalogues allows me the flexibility to choose. For me, assuming I want the coins within, I do one of several things</p><ul> <li>I travel with the catalogue perhaps to their sale. But not with a multi kilogram hardback</li> <li>I disassemble the catalogue just to conveniently work on a slim set of pages covering only the coins I am interested in. But I cannot do this with a hardback which would need a pneumatic drill to break it up</li> <li>I have started creating a card file of individual coins from otherwise large catalogues, on A7 cards, akin to that in the ANS. Yes, I can do this with hardback pages but what value is the binding?</li> <li>I take numbers of catalogues in a given series, fillet them to extract only the pages that interest me, and then bind that series into a new book. That&#039;s virtually impossible when I start with a hardback - one cannot disassemble into the quires of paper needed to rebind</li> <li>I sit with the catalogue in an easy chair in the evening and leaf through and make notes. This just becomes more difficult when the bulk and weight is augmented so much through a hardcover.</li> <li>For classic catalogues such as 1930s Cahn sales I do indeed bind them hardback but in groups, so for example my Cahn 66 68 71 and 75, four sensible soft backs from the 1930S, are bound together. But one cannot do that if the starting point is a hardback as you&#039;ll wreck the contents!</li> <li>But the single most common action I take with a catalogue produced in 2019 is to bin it (paper recycle), and generally I don&#039;t encourage firms to send me printed catalogues, unless from a landmark sale in my own interest area. I value classic catalogues tremendously and have built a substantial library to house them but anything dated 2019 .. nope.</li> </ul><p>The hardback catalogue I&#039;m upset with today comes from a firm that didn&#039;t exist until a couple of years ago, who then swiped the name of a respected old numismatic firm to pretend they have an association with them but without any relationship, even a commercial one, with the old brand. Coins within are all so-so. I have never bought a coin from this firm and I have never registered or provided them with my details. Yet four times in a row they have sent me this ultra expensively produced brick which heads straight off to recycle. <span style="font-size: 16px"><font face="Verdana"><span style="color: rgb(20, 20, 20)">Should I register with this firm just to tell them to stop sending me things?</span></font></span></p><p><br /></p><p>What drives you nuts?</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]929148[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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