Recent Literature Letter Sent out -Bound Volumes (page 2)

mustang

so if you dont have a computer, then you better keep your print copies.

Do they still sell those "do it yourself" binders? They were blue, empty and had wires to hold the loose mgazines.

Mustang

I still have a big box of bound volumes 1978-2005 in my garage .The plan was to throw away a few at a time so the garbage man wouldn't get a hernia. However they are now so buried in junk I can't even reach them . I remember the blue binders too . haha

abbagail

Ah, wonders never cease... No "hard back" bound volumes! Amazing. Isn't that an oxymoron? Isn't a "bound volume" supposed to be a hardback? Maybe not, but it "sounds" like it "should" be...

This is a hysterical description:

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For the past 3 years they've been issued in that god-awful flimsy flexi-vinyl soft covering they use now. It won't even stand up by itself on a bookshelf - just kind of slouches over like a bag of marshmallows.
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Don't you hate that? No more good-looking and handsome "bookshelves" in every JW home... just a bunch of slouched-over marshmallows..lol.

This was also a riot...

Those blue "do it yourself" binders -- lol -- with the WIRES... were miserable to use... and which when they got old were cruddy feeling! I had LOTS of those... bought them after I had accumulated a TON of OLD magazines from the 1960s forward thru the 1980s...I remember spending HOURS inserting the individual mags in them...and never did finish thru the day I threw them all away...

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I still have a big box of bound volumes 1978-2005 in my garage .The plan was to throw away a few at a time so the garbage man wouldn't get a hernia.
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I had about the same amount, about 25 years worth of books and mags, all of them! It took me THREE HOURS with a wagon, rolling out a wagon-full at a time to the dumpster at my apt. complex. Did that in late 2006. I didn't think about the garbage men getting hernias but I did feel a little "guilty" about it, even at that late date... but I had to get them OUT of my apt., there was just no more room!

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All this "downsizing" and going "paper-back" seems so strange... as if they are willingly throwing the "quality" of their own "image" out the window...

Either the WTBTS is hoarding its $$$ big time, or they are desperately broke.

And now CDs vs. bound volumes, period. Soon the entire WTBTS will be able to operate out of a 10x10 Public Storage facility with just a few computers and a few bethelites operating them!

Per the descriptions of the current "Bethel Tours" in another thread, they might as well.. it sounded like they were already near skeleton-mode...
/ag

Seeker4

I'm sure this is just the WTS going "green" and saving millions of tons of paper..

They wouldn't want to be part of those who are "ruining the Earth," now, would they?

S4

reneeisorym

If they quit sending out bound volumes, they can change the CD to say whatever they want.

Finally-Free

But what about all the pretty pictures of kids annoying lions, people carrying 100 lb baskets of fruit, and women hiking mountain trails wearing flowery dresses? They don't put those on the CD.

W

Jim_TX

The irony of it all is that - due to their negativity towards computers - many JWs (old-timers) never bought a computer - and even if they did today - wouldn't know the first thing about how to use it (where's the power switch?).

So - by their doing away with hard-copy (or 'floppy'-copy) - they are getting rid of many of the old-timers' Watchtower libraries - or forcing them to buy the CD's - which they can't use without a computer - which they never bought (or in their retirement years - can't afford).

Regards,

Jim TX

no more kool aid

So many older folks, including my family members, think that computers are literally the devil incarnate and the internet is strictly for porn and other satan stuff.

Troubled mind- if you ever get those old books down, I'll bring the marshmallows to the bonfire!

blondie

I think it is a money thing too. But I know many jws that don't have computers. Does this mean all congregations will have computers instead of bound volumes from now on and provide training to older jws or challenged jws on how to use the computer. As to changes, I just keep my old CDs and if suspicious, I just check those CDs. So many jws don't do research using CDs or bound volumes, they just run to an elder or an older jw.

SnakesInTheTower

FF:

But what about all the pretty pictures of kids annoying lions, people carrying 100 lb baskets of fruit, and women hiking mountain trails wearing flowery dresses? They don't put those on the CD.

Maybe the Society will do what National Geographic did a few years back...they put all 100 years of mags on 30 CDs. (I have that box set, but it is cumbersome.) Then each year after just issue an annual CD. People could use them as they wanted. Though I think NG went to DVD (yep, just checked..only 7 DVDs instead of CDs... and like the CD version, every single page was reproduced in full color http://www.amazon.com/Ultimate-National-Geographic-DVD-Collection/dp/B000051S4X/ref=pd_bbs_2?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1220476254&sr=8-2)

Of course, the pictures in the Wacktower, Asleep, and the publications are not as awe inspiring as National Geographic.

Didn't the Society put its map booklet on the WT Library CD? Seems like I remember it being there and everyone getting all excited.,...sad

Snakes ()

Recent Literature Letter Sent out -Bound Volumes