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Old 06-18-2014, 07:16 AM
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Originally Posted by Bill
Though it was still exciting to receive a box from Penrose, a bit of the thrill from my childhood was not there: the "free with order" hardcopy catalog. While I have already picked it up from the LHS, a kid without a nearby retail outlet is missing out.

That "kid" would probably be bemused and befuddled by the whole concept of a paper catalog. The tactile experience appeals to people like us above a certain age, but other than that, the listings on the Estes web site, and on Amazon where they're more likely to do their shopping, do everything a catalog does and do it better, with multiple photographs, a couple paragraphs of descriptive text, technical specifications, customer reviews (which are generally useless, but if nothing else people seem to like writing them), and a video clip. What's that kid want dead trees for?
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