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While you can see a lot, you don't see the quality. Half of the joy of a good coffee table book is that the photographer really understands the subject matter and when it would be ideal to capture a place. That is what is missing from Street View.
I think the days of coffee table books are numbered as a tablet while browsing flickr suffices for most things. For me though, it's the editing that makes the coffee table book still worthwhile. Of course, someone putting together sets of favourites from places and adding comments could replace the books for me.
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