"Apparently there once was a kind of obsolete proto-blog that was called a 'book.'" [1] But even real books, the internet has made them very accessible. You ca

"Apparently there once was a kind of obsolete proto-blog that was called a 'book.'" [1] But even real books, the internet has made them very accessible. You can find PDFs for all sorts of new books if you know where to look -- not everything, yet, but a lot. Amazon has as good a search interface as any library's DOS terminal I've ever used (I'd argue much better). All the fascinating facts, stories, and amazing information are on the web, too, along with a bunch of other stuff. I'd say the author just needs to refine his webcrawling. [1] http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2007/07/universalism-postwar-progressivism-as.html http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2007/07/univers...