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Book grumbles

8:30am Saturday 11th February 2012 in Your Argus

Among Adam Trimingham’s dislikes, grumbles and peeves are the Bee Gees and those who campaign to keep books central in public libraries (The Argus, February 8).

Mr Trimingham asserts that technology is supplanting books. However, public surveys have continually shown readers want more book stock. The book fund is increasing.

It is always dangerous to predict technical developments. Books are a proven technology over the centuries.

If he were a motorist, would he be driving a Sinclair C5, with a clutch of five-inch floppies on board as he listens to somebody other than the Bee Gees on an eight-track cartridge system?

Christopher Hawtree, Green Councillor

Comments(1)

Number Six says...
12:43pm Sat 11 Feb 12

Is he still here. I thought that he had retired decades ago. I used to live with a couple of Argus reporters thirty years ago (yes, he really has been at the same job for that long. Only Ken Barlow beats him in the lack of ambition stakes) and they both used to say that trimingham just wrote to wind people up. He didn't actually believe any of it.

Does anyone know if politicians who get their wives to take their speeding points was on his list?

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