I know I am old, but I hate digital books because they are hard to
search, hard to find the page you looked at before, and hard to even see on the screen, depending on the format and your screen size. There are some online magazines and books that are simply unreadable if you need to move around in them or, in some cases, to even see one full page. If necessary, I will read a crappy novel on the Kindle app. And Kindle editions often cost more than the printed version. Anyway, I also know my heirs will not want my books because they just don't do books. Yet, and it's a big yet, coin books are crazy expensive. And a well designed data base online is wonderful for coin research. A scanned book not so much. Case in point is the
Bellinger Phillip II article that is in a 1,000 plus page pdf that takes me 15 minutes to find it every time. That article I am going to print out. The other issue is I have a lot of downloaded books and 1) never remember what books they are; 2) can't remember where I saved them (even with a file cabinet, when I actually file something, it is the last time I will ever see it); and 3) if I do remember I might have it, I have to open 20 files to find the right one (see my comment on filing because the logical file folder tab name at the time of filing has nothing to do with remembering what the correct folder it may be that I need, same with file names). I can look over my bookshelves and find something fairly quickly. Ah well, the modern world. But seriously, if no one uses or wants books anymore, why are coin books so expensive? For example, I would love to have some
RIC volumes, unfortunately that is not going to happen.
Cheers,
Virgil