.KEYWORD palmbook
.FLYINGHEAD BOOK REVIEW
.TITLE Palm’s little instruction book
.OTHER
.SUMMARY It’s one of life’s great mysteries why books written about something as compact and convenient as the Palm device turn out being so big and unwieldy. An end has been put to that trend, however, with the publication of The Little Palm Book by Corbin Collins. Denise Watkins reviews this handy book that acts as a friendly introduction to the world of Palm computing.
.AUTHOR Denise Watkins
With a lot of recent books about Palm organizers, you need to start a weight-training program just to lift them. If one of the reasons you bought a Palm organizer is its small size, it defeats the purpose if, to use it properly, you have to lug around a reference manual the size of the New York City telephone directory.
A lighter alternative, both in terms of tone and physical mass, has recently appeared. The Little Palm Book, by Corbin Collins, is an introduction to the world of Palm computing that’s as easy to read as it is easy to carry. It’s available from Peachpit Press at http://www.peachpit.com/books/catalog/69954.html, and it’s pictured in Figure A.
.FIGPAIR A Corbin Collins’ The Little Palm Book is a friendly introduction to Palm computing.
Don’t think for a moment, however, that because this book is small, it’s not comprehensive. The only thing little about this book is the physical size; certainly not the amount of information the author shares.
.H1 About the author
I hate to read the forewords to books. I generally find them boring and think, "Hey, let’s get to the good stuff." However, in reading the foreword to The Little Palm Book, I was made an immediate fan of author Corbin Collins when he freely admits his Palm device bias and reveals that his wife calls him, "The First Evangelist of the Church of Palm." My response: a heartfelt, "Amen, brother."
Collins, pictured in Figure B, explains in the introduction that the book is little because, "I’m sticking to the facts here
