Two things cracked me up about Gorman's anti-blogger vapors

He snidely suggests that bloggers don't (can't?) read serious scholarly books:

Given the quality of the writing in the blogs I have seen, I doubt that many of the Blog People are in the habit of sustained reading of complex texts. It is entirely possible that their intellectual needs are met by an accumulation of random facts and paragraphs. In that case, their rejection of my view is quite understandable.

First, how can he generalize so easily about a class of people that numbers in the millions?

Second, with all his concern about "complex texts" and scholarly books you would think that is what the ALA and its memebers promote. Check out the "most borrowed list" in the upper right corner.

The Books Most Borrowed in U.S. Libraries


Fiction
1. London Bridges, James Patterson
2. The Da Vinci Code, Brown, Dan
3. The Broker, Grisham, John

Nonfiction
1. America (The Book), Jon Stewart
2. My Life, Bill Clinton
3. He's Just Not That into You, Greg Behrendt