I'm not the only snob

A good friend just sent me the link to this editorial, written by Susan Jacoby, author of The Age of American Unreason.

I agree with a lot of what she says, but I do think we need to be cautious that reading online is still reading. I encounter a lot of students who are incredibly intelligent every day who rarely read a book. Does it bother me that the literary lions I read in college now seem obsolete? Sure... but I don't think that by forcing people read on paper is the way to get them there. We have to draw a line between preserving the good in the classical canon and throwing out the useful in the current one.

"The Dumbing of America." (Jacoby, S. The Washington Post. 2/17/08.)