Does anybody read the damn rule book anymore?

[bob jenkins]

Originally Posted by truerookie

I believe BBR is on to something here. We have arrived to the point where some of us do not want to reference the rulebook OR casebook when we can turn on the computer and get the answer to any question we may have along with the citation. In a sense, rules study is falling behind. JMO.

I raised the same (or substantially similar) issue a couple of months ago.

The problem, imo, is not that the official won't learn the answer to his/her specific question, but that s/he won't learn anything else from the rules book.

When I was first starting out, many was the time when I'd search through the rule book for one thing, and find out something else that "I knew for certain that just wan't so."