I can’t keep up with technology. What with Facebook, iPod, Twitter, iPhone, blah, blah, blah. I’m still an archaic fan of books. That’s right, I’m a bookman. The idea of perceiving abstract shapes in the form of letters, bringing them into my mind and ferreting out the meaning of this abstraction is what made the former “books only” generation so much more intellectually grounded than this “modern” breed.

Ask a kid under 16 if he reads books, and the response is likely, “Books? Books, oh yeah. I read about books on the Internet.” Don’t get me wrong; I am pro ...   more »