Psaw...

Others believe the net has made books superfluous.
Books will never be superfluous! At least not in my house. I'm of the mind that we need to keep the information we treasure the most at hand in print. Maybe it's the homesteader in me, or growing up without reliable internet but I refuse to trust having information online when I need it.

I don't doubt however that I'm not the norm and that many people no longer find the same joy or ability to become engrossed in a book. The fact that people skim and jump around instead of probably reading a text sounds scary but sadly very likely. As someone who has spent hours discussing a single word or period in a sentence, I find it odd.