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John Harrison

Our Branch has for many years had a bookstall. The rationaale was that if ringers could see and bropwse books (at meetings and practices) they would be more likely to acquire books, and hence benefit from their contents. In recent years it was used less - fewer people bought books and it was less often taken to practices and drifted from a shop window to an ordering service.
The question being raised now is whether we need it at all 'since people can download blue lines and other ringing ionformation straight to their phones'.
I would be interested to know the experience or views from other areas.

A M Hodge

I see numerous phones being used, but very few books now. Only the traditionalists (like me, I admit) get out their Red Diagrams, or similar.

What is appreciated at 2 towers where I ring is the tower copy of the blue lines in A4 spiral bound format. With that, several of the band can look over one copy together to sort out or explain a detailed point in the method. At that size, it is far easier for several people to see the page and where the a particular point of concern arises, rather than looking at separate books or phones. That however, is not a CCCBR publication, as far as I recall.

The other merit of online material, is that it can be kept up to date readily. This may not be of concern, say for basic blue lines, but for some items, that is important.

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