Update Announcements by Craig Stark 30 January 2012

Technology marches on, and to some extent bookselling with it. I began my bookselling life carrying a scouting book with me, and this almost seems quaint now, given the breathtaking capabilities of today's smartphones. The march of technology has steadily headed toward faster and smaller. Faster is always better, but is smaller? This could be a just-me thing, but frankly, I haven't taken advantage of my iPhone in the field as much as I thought I would. It's a size issue for me. The darn thing is small, after all, and consequently not as user friendly for deep research as a computer is. For the past month I've been experimenting with a somewhat bigger scouting tool - an iPad 2 - and today's feature article, Part I of a two-part series, is a preliminary report.

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