Where is Cal. Reporter 3d?

As a paralegal I use a series of case-reporting volumes titled West’s California Reporter, Third Series. (Yes, I also use first and second.) For an unusually long time, however, the hardbound volumes have not appeared in public law libraries, just the paperback “advance sheets”. Anybody among the Teeming Millions (preferably with some legal background) care to venture a guess why?

It’s too expensive? We’ve shifted almost everything to online, although we do keep the reference books around (Rutter, Witkin, etc.).

When I was first coming out of law school, my firm was just getting rid of their Shepards because it was cheaper and faster to Shepardize online. (Can I tell you the number of crotchety partners who couldn’t understand that distinction and kept insisting “no online research! books only!” Um, but we don’t have the books anymore…)

Do those partners chastise you for not writing with quill pens? :smiley: