The article is a good read and has some points worth considering….however…it does appear to be more driven by a conclusion of a loss of worldly recognition for the author’s chosen profession. Using the end to justify the rest, that is, his juxtaposition of last year’s Amazon best seller and his pick, to conclude the sad state of affairs of society’s interest in good books, does not make his case. He makes his good points along the way while failing to recognize that there are some mediocre ones that don’t deserve to be diminished, i.e. kids addicted to trash (his view) are reading, even if it is light reading. He bemoans the loss of book sections in newspapers as a loss of the guiding lights of the book industry, with no reference to the problem the papers themselves are having of going out of business, no thanks to the book sections! He criticizes herd mentality while stating that he missed a chance (for TWELVE years) to teach students how to explore books because he participated in, gasp, education’s herd mentality. It is a good article if only because it shows that not all well read people read all well read books. And there is nothing wrong with that. Technology is putting him out of job and he doesn’t like it.