New Sites Directory and Handbook

I have just discovered that the printed site directory has proved very useful and much quicker than trying to do the same thing online! In reply to another thread I was able to quickly check some facts whilst at the same time not moving away from the reply I was typing on screen

David

As for the new sites directory,without this years  prices ,there is at this time no date for the publication of such ,but i and others details are "on the list" for posting to when published

I get the feeling that yet again the covid card is being played again ,to cover for an oversight? with a reply i received to which i corrected

Using a printed book is quicker than looking up site details online. Totally agree but there is a very good reason for that and its not because the book is good.

To be honest however great the IT system was it would not have been quicker or more convenient to use for the purpose I was putting it to  at the time. I am all for the Club improving it's IT but there is still a place, currently, for a printed Site Directory in my view. Maybe that will change in time.

David

I think even with a totally super-duper system as you want, picking up a book and find a page is often quicker than picking up a device like a phone, switching it on/awake, open the app, search for what you want, then play about scrolling up/down left/right as the screen can't display everything you want at one time.

It may well be quicker, I don't know because I never use the directory. I would have opened up another tab to find the answer while still retaining the original page on the original tab. How much you can see surely depends on the size of the screen and your knowledge of how to move around it.

I bet you cannot check availability from the directory.

peedee

I use the website all the time , the info is then as up to date as it can be . As it raining I might try to find my directory, can’t remember where I put it 

Do not need to at present its nil until mid feb on all cc sites

Ps when sorting a tour ,we look at map Check sites on route with book ,and then book on line where we hope to stop with back up sites if no availability on first choice

Can't agree with you Peede, you would have needed to have opened a dozen tabs to do what I was doing. I just flicked through the pages to establish what the arrival times were at about a dozen sites which would have taken ages to do looking at each one online. OK perhaps not the use that either were designed for but I think we have to be a bit careful in suggesting that everything in every circumstance can be done better or easier online. 

David

Agree, the directory is out of date the day it drops through the letter box and it gets steadily more out of date with each passing month. It is far too time consuming to keep up todate when the latest information is available on the web.

peedee