"I’ve seen them practically kissing their phones when they get them back."

Is there a digital doctor in the house?

That might be the thought crossing someone’s mind when their smartphone or tablet slides out of a pocket onto a screen-shattering surface, or is found in a just-washed load of clothes.

In Temple Terrace, there is. Digital Doc is an electronics service franchise offering repair, refurbishment and recycling of personal technology from cellphones to monitors, Acer to Xperia.

Jim Bookamer, 62, became a franchisee after a career as an industrial designer. He embarked on his entrepreneurial adventure as one of the first to obtain a Digital Doc franchise when the opportunity arose to do something different with his life.

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