Just Curious ... What to you read?

ScarsdaleCoin

Really wondering ... I had a conversation today with a newbie collector and I was mentioning how years ago I really enjoyed sitting down with a print copy of various coin magazines (did they used to call them rags?) and a cup of coffee and read.... Do you do that anymore? Do you younger folks (am I that old) just go online digitally and read? What are you reading... have facebook pages replaced Numismatic News and CoinWorld (both great publications)

olympicsos

The fourms are the better source than facebook groups

johnny9434

I get back issues of rags like coinage and alot of other good ones. I gotta go see and see who has issues in print. Hmmm, coffeeeeee

MarkKelley

From what I can see, the Facebook pages and their ilk contain far more misinformation than information.

Ebeneezer

The majority I read, The Numismatist and Coin World. Probably 5-10% online versions. Then again, I'm in the aged category and still read an actual newspaper every morning with my coffee.

Walkerfan

I find a lot of good content online But I still enjoy my hardcopy of Coin world. The graysheet is also good, since it is more comprehensive now with good articles.

Mr_Spud

I’m not young, and I still like to read physical books and magazines, but I can’t read physical print very long without getting eye strain. My eyes are so bad, the latest being extreme floaters from vitreous detachment, that I can’t read print easily without the page being lit up like on my iPad. I can read on my iPad for hours on end with no problems with the page behind the print being lit like it is, but I can only read physical print for about 1/2 hour or so without eye strain. My problem is, I need the room to be dark so my pupils aren’t constricted to see around the floaters, but with physical print I need the room to be bright to see the print and my pupils constrict. It’s the same at my work, I have low lighting in my office or I can’t work on my computer very long.

I might have to try one of those little book lights that light up physical print, they sell them for people who like to read in bed. I bet that would work so I can enjoy physical print more 🤔

golden

I subscribed to Coin World for 50 years. I enjoyed reading it every week. I dropped the subscription 10 years ago because there was very little content.

GAC

The way people consume information has changed over time. The older generation had to actively seek out knowledge through books, magazines, and personal connections. Reading was also a common pastime. Over the years, though, reading for enjoyment has declined.

Younger collectors today tend to read only when they’re looking for a specific answer, rather than for the sake of learning or deepening their knowledge of whatever they collect. Now I say tend because I know plenty of younger collectors that read about the history and still use books/magazine for a way to learn. This shift is largely due to changes in attention span, short-form content on platforms like TikTok, YouTube, and Instagram has conditioned people to prefer quick, digestible information over lengthy articles or books.

The same pattern applies to news consumption. Older generations might sit down with a newspaper and coffee, while today, people can get the same information from a Google headline in seconds. Ultimately, it comes down to generational differences in how information is accessed and consumed.

Swampboy

I'm a certified fossil. I read a newspaper with coffee every day, The Numismatist with lunch sometimes.
Other magazines too
Facebook, I keep a Page for my music. I pick up a book every month or so at one of the several bookstores I'm trying to keep in business (tilting at Amazon's windmill there).

Old_Collector

This is a momentous year for me, I finally broke down and pre-ordered a large print 2026 Red Book.

I do read a lot online too but have three 27" IPS monitors so I can upsize all the text and I use dark mode to keep eyestrain down as much as possible.

BLUEJAYWAY

I keep informed via Coin World,Linns Stamp issues both picked up at my local library. And of course this Forum. Provides adequate information for my interests.

Clackamas1

Just got done with Typee by Melville. Simply fascinating; living in the Marquesas and being the very first western person to have ever encountered a tribe and live with them for months. Starting Omoo now in which he goes to Tahiti but they have been encountered for years.

seatedlib3991

I read both books and online. I am a member of the Liberty Seated Collector Club so I read both the E-Gobrecht and the Quarterly journal that is mailed out. I love to study coins so just about every day I can I will find a Seated coin that interests me. I will research it and use both my coin books at home and online references to learn as much as I can. Sometimes they end up in my collection.
Coin World ticked me off more than 20 years ago. Up until then I subscribed from 1980 to 2000 or so. The Numismatist I read far less often. The internet has changed the world anyway. Everyday I check in on a few online websites and read whatever grabs my attention. I am a collector so I usually spend more time reading than writing. james

safari_dude

I read Numismatic News and take it with me every morning when I go for breakfast. I would say at least once each week a diner will come up and engage in a conversation about coins with me. That magazine has also led me to buy a few coins that would have never been on my radar…..😉

DisneyFan

Besides participating in this board, I like reading historical books. The last one was:
"This Fierce People : The Untold Story of America's Revolutionary War in the South" by Alan Pell Crawford
We are all familiar with Lexington and Concord (1775) and Saratoga (1777).  Yet, it was the the direct result of the three-plus years southern campaign between Saratoga and Yorktown (1781) that America's Revolutionary War was won.  

ambro51

I own two Studebakers and eagerly await my copy of Turning Wheels, the monthly magazine of the Studebaker Drivers Club. My back issues go all the way back to 1973, when I first joined the club

seatedlib3991

It is of no importance to you but my dad moved from Detroit to California just to work at the Edsel plant. He did electrical wiring there. James

pursuitofliberty

Look forward to the print copies of the JRCS Journal and The Numismatist, and I'm still young (at heart!).

I read some on-line too (I read a fair amount here).

oih82w8

As far numismatic reading goes, I would prefer a paper copy, but will take what I can get.

I am trying to get back to the "Killing Series" by Bill O'Reilly. I am a history buff.

jfriedm56

For decades I would order a printed version of Coin World to physically have the magazine in my hands. Also the Red Book every year to look at mintages and other information. I had physical subscriptions to the Grey sheet for pricing info. So in today’s world I still purchase a new Red book every year and for the past 5or 6 years the Numismatist magazine.

Typekat

“Treasure Island” by Robert Lewis Stevenson.

Sure, it was written for children back in the 1880s, but it’s a rollicking good pirate treasure story.

silverpop

😔

EastonCollection

I read Coinage magazine. Excellent articles.

Barberian

I read Playboy magazine. Excellent articles!

Desert Moon

Clive Cussler, Dan Brown, etc. on my Kindle……………….. Coin mags and books, what are those?

breakdown

Stopped Coinworld many years ago. Still read EGobrecht and skim Numismatist.

Always reading two or three books although many of them on Audible these days.