> I guess I don't take the "just so long as they're reading" position to the extreme. Indeed. The way the article took that argument to the extreme felt like

> I guess I don't take the "just so long as they're reading" position to the extreme. Indeed. The way the article took that argument to the extreme felt like a straw man with statements like: "The opposite argument—that the kind of book a child has his or her nose buried in does make a difference" I don't think anyone on the "other side" would say that the kind of book doesn't matter, just that less good books are still good.