I see no reason why we can’t have both online and printed book Registries. Then each person decides what they want to pay for. More money for the club, and best of both worlds for the members. I’d probably pay for both.
I’d certainly pay extra for an editable PDF version of the Registry. Then I could do easy word searches when looking for specific info. Plus I could add data I learn about a car that’s not already there – after sending that new into to the registrar, of course. But I’m guessing this method of distribution is not practical because of the opportunities it would present to the ever present evil doers in our world.
I just hope the registrars have multiple backups stored in various, widely separated physical locations so the forum crash debacle can’t happen to any of the Registry data. I’m guessing that issue was considered and proper backups were arranged many years ago.
Steve