Beware the barbarians!

This is a very interesting article:

Stacks' Appeal

The author describes something I find both surprising and alarming: the tendency for university libraries to move away from real books to electronic ones. He makes a compelling case for preserving the real thing, IMO. Parts of the article remind me of How The Irish Saved Civilization, in that the reading provokes a strong and deep desire to save a valuable heritage from destruction.

This is one reason why we homeschool, right? Because we just LOOOOVVVVVE BOOKS.

And we want our kids to love them, too.