FWIW, Bob (Deckman), I go to the Seattle Song Circles fairly often - at least on the 2nd and 3rd Sundays - and while people often do use printed songs in one way or another, most of the songs people do there are not from Rise Up Singing, and even when a song is "in the book," if it's a familiar song, most people don't use the book. Some people do solos (or maybe sing with one or two others who know the song they're doing) but on many songs the group sings along. It's pretty varied and depends on who shows up. It's certainly not an "everybody turn to page 242" routine.