Is Anyone Updating the SCD Card Catalog?

[G1911]

Originally Posted by butchie_t

This is a fear of mine, if it gets built, who would come?

Butch T.

It saddens me, personally. It's so convenient that I can have 50,000 books on my iPad that take 0 space when traveling, but nothing is better in life than a good old fashioned book in ones lap.

Card catalogs fall into the sweet spot where the money just doesn't make sense. There isn't enough demand for a vintage card book to get a real publisher to invest into it; but there's also too much demand for you or I or something to print up the copies and just eat a small loss to put out a passion project. At this point, I suspect card physical books are going to be restricted to very narrow niche passion projects that are self-published where the author can just eat a small loss or break even and is doing it anyways because they want too, and perhaps some coffee-table like books.

I'd much rather a 2 volume actual book than a BaseballCardPedia type, but the later seems the only way to do it .

[butchie_t]

Originally Posted by G1911

It saddens me, personally. It's so convenient that I can have 50,000 books on my iPad that take 0 space when traveling, but nothing is better in life than a good old fashioned book in ones lap.

Card catalogs fall into the sweet spot where the money just doesn't make sense. There isn't enough demand for a vintage card book to get a real publisher to invest into it; but there's also too much demand for you or I or something to print up the copies and just eat a small loss to put out a passion project. At this point, I suspect card physical books are going to be restricted to very narrow niche passion projects that are self-published where the author can just eat a small loss or break even and is doing it anyways because they want too, and perhaps some coffee-table like books.

I'd much rather a 2 volume actual book than a BaseballCardPedia type, but the later seems the only way to do it .

BOLLOCKS!!!!! BOOK GOOD, iPad... Backup.

JMHO.

This coming from a person that has well over 200 Civil War 1st and 2nd edition Hardback Books.

Give me a book any day of the year.

[G1911]

Originally Posted by butchie_t

BOLLOCKS!!!!! BOOK GOOD, iPad... Backup.

JMHO.

This coming from a person that has well over 200 Civil War 1st and 2nd edition Hardback Books.

Give me a book any day of the year.

I love how you think! My home is stuffed with floor to ceiling bookcases with the books packed 2 rows to a shelf and then there's a bunch more boxed up I just don't have space to shelve but can't bring myself to part with. I use the iPad now for travel so I always have a book with me, but every evening I take a good old physical book and spend a few hours in one of my reading nooks or on the porch. Life is made the better with a real book.