If you cut out the author's recurring mantra "it's not the physical book we value, it's the words" then this book would be a third as long. Take out the redundant arguments about why today's "generation upload" insists on always interacting with everything on multiple levels and is both incapable and thoroughly disinterested in doing anything like "just read", or just listen to "music" (or "just" anything) and you'll cut another third out. Aside from being long winded, it's just wrong. Kids know how to consume different media, and aren't limited to just mash-ups.

Anyway, what's left is an engaging discussion about the transformation of the book as an entity, the industry behind books, and the people that read them. However, this lesson would work just as well in a much shorter book.

, I found Print Is Dead worth my limited reading time. I recommend it.