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Thanks, both. Yes I realize I was lucky. Usually the shop people know their stuff. But (like many shops) they tend to price modern jazz (mostly hard bop and post-hard bop styles) higher because this is where business is higher in their jazz section. So older styles of jazz often are "priced to sell". (Which suits me fine. ) In this case they may also have been overwhelmed by that collection of classic jazz/trad/dixieland that they evidently have gotten in very recently (this box looks like it was part of it). Sadly, it also is a sign of how little these styles of jazz will fetch when owners or heirs unload records in bulk at a shop. I haven't had much time listening to the CDs but have sampled CD2 (including the interview which I find a "charming" period piece). And the book is great - just one regret: reading the text is a strain on the eyes after a while (and I'm usually not one to complain about readability). Printing the text in light brown or light grey on white paper wasn't such a smart idea. Particularly since the English text appears even more faded than the French one (not that I would mind reading French, but still ...)

This has potential to be a good show (Ha!) but if it follows the storylines of the original Belgian show, it will add some iffy sidebars that I didn't think worked very well. In later seasons of the Belgian show, Morgaine did some really stupid things that I don't think someone as brilliant as she's supposed to be would actually do.

Thanks for your comments so far, @mikeweil

As I said in my comment, I agree that original prints should always be left in their original state. However, once digitized, it's fairly easy these days to fix minor problems like those folds and bring out more detail with some judicious use of contrast. To be honest, it looks like whoever scanned this originally didn't do a great job with the contrast settings, so at least in this instance, some tweaking would almost be welcomed. I don't really understand the thinking about this either. We have thousands of pages of posts here on the forums discussing which hard copy of musical performances sound the best. None of us want to play scratched up 78s to listen our music. This is the same thing. Just like judicious use of EQ, noise reduction, de-clickers etc. improves the sound of the music we play, some cleaning up of original photographs can do wonders to improve our enjoyment of the photo.

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