Why don you provide… [more categories, more information, searchable index] in BuckaCover ?
The common theme among all these questions is that the BuckaCover part of our site would be easier for the specialist to use if we would only provide more information on the covers, either by providing a searchable index, separating them into more specific categories or some similar suggestion. We can see how further indexing, or providing more details on an individual cover basis, could make the BuckaCover listings easier to search, particularly for those with narrow interests. However, the economics of offering so many covers, scanned and online at this price, don’t allow us to handle the covers in any smaller groups than we already do. Any additional information, or category breakdown, means more handling — more handling means more labor costs, and necessarily higher prices. We can’t manage it. Just like the typical $1 cover table at a stamp show, BuckaCover is a “browsers” site. Economics rules all. In order to provide the material the way we do, we have to save labor costs. The c
