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Presents a list of bestseller books for children in the U.S. as of April 2004. "Duck for President," by Doreen Cronin; "Eragon," by Christopher Poolini; "Dora the Explorer," published by Simon Spotlight.

The author offers her views on the replacement of the ink-and-paper version of books with the electronic ones. Unlike other people, she does not necessarily think the advent of e-reading technology is yet another indicator of the decline of Western civilization. To her, it is not really reading if she does not get to feel the book in her hands.

A list of several books related to art, architecture and literature is presented. The list includes "The Country Houses of Robert Adam: From the Archives of Country Life," by Eileen Harris, "BibliOdyssey: Amazing Archival Images from the Dusty Corners of the Internet!," edited by Damon Murray and Stephen Sorrell, and "Seed Queen: The Story of Crop Art and the Amazing Lillian Colton," by Colleen Sheehy.

The article presents the author's insights on the future of written literature. The author believes that despite the variety of delivery systems, literature will be available. He notes that the book is still best for long term data storage and flexibility. He expresses his suspicion to Twitter as well as negativity towards other social networking sites such as Facebook and gadgets like the iPhone. He adds that writing proceeds in the same way despite technological innovations.