Things are coming along no doubt. If I'm familiar with some tune but don't have it memorized like what happened a few years ago when a sax player sat in, he pulled it up on his phone using iRealB, put it on my stand and I could read it ok. But that's because it was another standard AABA jazz tune that I sort of knew but not quite, you know?

But take something that's more modern and certainly not standard like some Lorber tunes such as Watersign or Toads Place. I'm supposed to catch those fully written out keyboard parts and no way could I do that on even an 8" screen. I need my full size black on white fake book chart with lots of light.

I keep checking up on this stuff by reading threads like this and talking to other players. Yes, I've seen a good number using their iPads on stage but again, they're 99% standard stuff that they already pretty much know. They're just using the iPad as a memory crutch. But I've talked about this, if somebody calls a more complicated tune that they've never heard of much less played before, then you could have a problem reading that because you have to be able to see the notation clearly and for that you need your full size fake book.

The other thing of course is the cost. The largest tablets are not cheap when I already have all the books.

But on my third (or fourth?) other hand the idea of having my 1,000's of charts digitized and inside a nice sized device is very appealing.

I know I'll get there eventually.

Bob

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