This may well not be a new suggestion, but I believe it would be in the members‘ interest to devote a category in both the forum and in classified ads exclusively to books and other paper items, organized by war or era.
This category would absorb only some, not all, materials now spread around the site and highlight them to members, particularly to collectors with their specialized interests. For starters, I suggest two main categories:
(1) Original items dating from the war period.
(2) postwar publications. I would also group items by nationality/language of the material. Within each such national group there could be one sub-category for combat operations and another for service manuals, handbooks, maps and documents, such as ID, travel orders, etc.
A second category in the national group would be dedicated to personal memorabilia such as individual photographs and entire albums, letters, diaries and unpublished unit histories. I would like to hear from administrators and others their pros and cons for developing the proposed categories.
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