{"id":3758,"date":"2011-12-11T23:00:24","date_gmt":"2011-12-12T04:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogygals.com\/blog\/?p=3758"},"modified":"2011-12-11T23:00:24","modified_gmt":"2011-12-12T04:00:24","slug":"no-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogygals.com\/blog\/no-books\/","title":{"rendered":"No Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/genealogygals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/beware-of-the-book.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3759\" title=\"beware of the book\" src=\"http:\/\/genealogygals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/beware-of-the-book.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogygals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/beware-of-the-book.jpg 500w, https:\/\/genealogygals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/beware-of-the-book-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/genealogygals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/beware-of-the-book-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogygals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/beware-of-the-book-266x200.jpg 266w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Since it is two weeks before Christmas and ten days before Hanukkah and I am still working at my paying job I have decided to take the easy way out and post something that does not require research or the manipulation of many photos in the cranky WordPress interface.\u00a0 So, I add my voice to the books at RootsTech controversy.<\/p>\n<p>I wasn&#8217;t at RootsTech last year and I won&#8217;t be there this year.\u00a0 I have never been an official blogger for anything and I have no expectations of ever being one.\u00a0 I doubt the people at RootsTech care at all about what I think. Yet I still manage to have an opinion or two.<\/p>\n<p>No books.\u00a0 Are you kidding me?\u00a0 This reminds me of last year&#8217;s nonsense after RootsTech.\u00a0 The alleged divide between old and young genealogists, the who gets to participate controversy, and endless stuff about sourcing.<\/p>\n<p>Now it seems that the folks at RootsTech have decided that books don&#8217;t fit the young, hip image they wish to project.\u00a0 Fine, do what you want, but it seems like a stupid business decision to me.\u00a0 The majority of genealogists and most RootsTech attendees are still an older demographic.\u00a0 We want to keep up with things techie, save forests by going paperless, and certainly have access to printed material online; but we love real, physical books too.<\/p>\n<p>The book vendors still bring things that can&#8217;t be found online.\u00a0 They also bring knowledge of what else is out there and where to find it.\u00a0 I find them to be consistently the most interesting vendors to talk with at a meeting.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t seen RootsTech&#8217;s explanation for banning books, so perhaps it is a bit unfair to berate them about it.\u00a0 Does anyone know the rationale behind this decision? Is their vendor space that limited?\u00a0 Surely you could squeeze a little space for books in somewhere. I really hope this is not a &#8220;paper is dead&#8221; movement.\u00a0 It won&#8217;t work because people rarely buy into stupid ideas for very long.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Credit for the photo:\u00a0 http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/florian_b\/44227093\/<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Since it is two weeks before Christmas and ten days before Hanukkah and I am still working at my paying job I have decided to take the easy way out and post something that does not require research &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/genealogygals.com\/blog\/no-books\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">No Books<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[201,7,141],"class_list":["post-3758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","tag-books","tag-genealogy","tag-rootstech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogygals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogygals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogygals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogygals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogygals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3758"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/genealogygals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3771,"href":"https:\/\/genealogygals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3758\/revisions\/3771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogygals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogygals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogygals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}