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Provides easy-to-follow instructions on how to perform twenty-four cool things with an iPod, including use it as a voice recorder, read email, install a different operating system, enhance audio quality, and more.

Includes, beginning Sept. 15, 1954 (and on the 15th of each month, Sept.-May) a special section: School library journal, ISSN 0000-0035, (called Junior libraries, 1954-May 1961). Also issued separately.

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