Today Michael Hyatt of www.michaelhyatt.com and CEO of Thomas Nelson publishing listed the ideal qualities of the iPad. This is not just another check list of features, but the ideas of a book publisher. In short he listed eight concepts that he would like to see integrated into Apple’s iPad.

• Highlighting or underlining.
• In-text annotations.
• Go to next chapter.
• Built-in dictionary and web lookup.
• Bookmarking and search.
• Text-to-speech.
• Social media integration.
• Share with a friend.

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