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Advanced Life Support Group, London: BMJ Books, 2000, £22.00, file size 3221 Kb, ISBN 0727915541
The majority of readers of Archives of Disease in Childhood will know this book very well. My task here is not to appraise the content of the eBook, which is the same as the (now famous) paperback, but to test how well it serves its purpose when used in the eBook format, and specifically on a personal digital assistant (PDA).
There are some books that you wish you could have with you at all times. The well known format of the APLS manual is an A4 size book with plenty of free space, large diagrams, and comfortable font size. There was clearly no intention to compromise any of these for the sake of portability; the manual does not aspire to be pocketsize. The APLS manual in paper form is published by BMJ Books and luckily this forward thinking publisher has now brought out several of their publications in electronic format. Once you buy the PDA version of the APLS manual it can …