My theory is that hand-made cards are good enough and often better than purchased ones; it’s even harder for commercial ones to compete with the best freely-distributed ones. (Take a look at the samples for a number of the decks, like the assembler deck. My own assembler flash cards are better!)
The quality doesn’t seem particularly great for the SM bought decks. For instance, for a foreign language deck I’d like to see images and native pronunciations, preferably from multiple speakers. For a chemistry deck I’d like to see 3D representations of molecules, preferably in multiple manners (ball-and-stick, spheres, etc), even better if the flash card allowed for rotational viewing of the molecule.
I definitely wouldn’t buy any of the decks I saw on SM.
Currently the only surviving seller of SM flashcards that I know of is SM itself: http://www.super-memo.com/collections.html
And if you look at their recent-addition list (http://www.super-memory.com/sml/accession.htm), #1 is http://www.super-memory.com/sml/2003/651.htm which was last updated… 2004.
My theory is that hand-made cards are good enough and often better than purchased ones; it’s even harder for commercial ones to compete with the best freely-distributed ones. (Take a look at the samples for a number of the decks, like the assembler deck. My own assembler flash cards are better!)
The quality doesn’t seem particularly great for the SM bought decks. For instance, for a foreign language deck I’d like to see images and native pronunciations, preferably from multiple speakers. For a chemistry deck I’d like to see 3D representations of molecules, preferably in multiple manners (ball-and-stick, spheres, etc), even better if the flash card allowed for rotational viewing of the molecule.
I definitely wouldn’t buy any of the decks I saw on SM.