as I live a few more questions

"It should come with a defibrillator."

"You're a problem patron"

Check out the discussion in the chat box to the far right of this screen capture from my new Apple iPod this morning. I tell you this thing is like crack!

Oops!  The picture is a bit too small... here's the conversation:

• Librarian: What is your question?
• Ryan: Hi it's Ryan Schultz I am testing out chat ref from my new iPad
• Ryan: It works!
• Ryan: Call it a test
• Librarian: You're a problem patron
• Ryan: haHahAha Itrue I am
• Ryan: Byebye

I gave in to temptation...

I caved. I *CAVED*. There was a whole row of them at the campus bookstore, and I felt my will-power slipping away. I am now the proud owner of an Apple iPad (64GB, 3G+WiFi; if I'm gonna go to hell I may as well go express!). As far as I know my reputation as the first U of M librarian to buy the latest tech gadget has been upheld. I'll report back on my experiences, and I will also compare and contrast the iPad versus Amazon's Kindle as an ebook reader platform.