Amid the flurry of hype, hurrah’s, opinions and blogs about the new Apple iPad I found this post by David Lee King on his blog. Davis feels that the iPad will be a natural tool for use when roving. You can see the rest of his article at http://www.davidleeking.com/2010/01/28/ipad-a-game-changer

Think Reference Desk and roving reference here. It’s the same price as a netbook laptop. But probably easier to carry around, easier to show stuff to people, easier to make the text larger for people who need larger text (you just touch and stretch the screen with your fingers to make the text larger – just like an iPhone). And has a 178 degree viewing angle, so it would work well to show stuff to patrons.