Fate of the Book
Nick Carr is the current smart critic of the new. He is articulate and informed, which is why his worry about the decline of book-thinking gets a hearing. But a decade and a half ago there was another articulate critic of the rising internet who similarly yearned to protect the superior, but endangered book. That critic was Sven Birkerts.
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