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It started as a marketing tool.
About seven years ago, Indianapolis real estate agent Jim Poole wanted to give clients another way to remember him. He already sent them monthly postcards with photos of him posing in front of various Indiana locations.
For a change of pace, Poole, an agent for F.C. Tucker Co. Inc,, challenged his clients, golfing buddies, church friends and others to send him names of interesting restaurants.
That effort spawned a paperback book called, "Dining Secrets of Indiana," now used by restaurant critics and others as a way to find locally owned restaurants off the beaten path.
While Jim still uses the book as a marketing tool, he and his wife, Kathy, have printed 5,000 copies of a third edition, and expect to sell many of them in bookstores.
Although a second edition sold 10,000 copies, the guide is not a money-making venture.
Given the 10,000 miles the couple...