Query this morning from one of the folk who attended the ebook afternoon on Wednesday. Not about devices but about the actual ebook I was showing on my old Palm.

I happened to be reading an e-version of Wayne Grudem's Systematic Theology which I bought a while back for reference. It sounds as dull as ditchwater and is a monstrous book in print of over 1200 pages. (9000+ on the small Palm screen!) However, it's exceedingly well written and approachable to the layperson and can even be used in a devotional way. So I thought I might read it slowly over the course of this year.

It made a good demo as it's a reasonably complex book with detailed contents pages, footnotes and small line diagrams which the Palm version reproduces faithfully. But I didn't expect anyone to care about the book itself. Only goes to show.

Anyway, must run... our President is coming to talk to us about university finances. He doesn't often make an appearance in the Library and this is the first time in the three and a half years I've been here that we've shut the issue desk and all the enquiry desks so that staff can attend.