A first!
Yes, that’s a first for me. I’m just back from taking the Holy Communion service at Hemblington this morning, and preached from my new Blackberry Playbook. It was a bit scary as I’m not yet totally confident it won’t freeze at the worst possible moment (it hasn’t frozen since I had it, but with computers that’s no guarantee), or run out of battery (I charged it up fully last night, just in case), or refuse to go on at all (again, it’s never done that).
It was Paul, our rector, who suggested I might want to use the tablet in church. Until then, it hadn’t occurred to me, but when I thought about it, I was hooked. Saves all that paper, and I can easily transfer documents from my laptop to the tablet.
So there I was, preaching from the Playbook, which is A5 size and can be used in either portrait or landscape mode. All went well until I inadvertently touched something (don’t know what) that brought the keyboard onto the screen, thus obscuring some of the text I was trying to read. It was a slightly panicky moment, but I managed to get rid of the keyboard without too much trouble.
I shall now use the PLaybook in church for all the services I take. It’s given me wonderful justification for buying it in the first place, for now I can claim it’s not just play. I need it for work as well!