The Case for Books: Past, Present, and Future Book

Very disappointing to say the least. The title and dust-cover description identified this as a book that would cover one of the most interesting topics I'd heard approached in years: Why are books important in this age of computers and the internet?

To say it didn't cover this topic is an understatement. This is a librarian who wrote multiple articles on the same 2-3 topics, then bound them together into this. The problems are many, but some include:

1. The repetition is horrendous. Many of the articles repeat exact arguments/metaphors you heard in previous articles.

2. The guy doesn't understand the internet and it's limitations and/or this book is so out of date that it already mispredicted the future of books.

3. The book is presented as something for conusumers, but it's for librarians and college professors (not in it's complexity, but it in's "Who Cares?" factor for regular folks)

I wish someone would write a book on this topic that didn't suck and actually covered what they said they would.