OK, I was going to write about how book sales were up 1 percent last year (thanks to a bump from the last book in the Harry Potter series), and how Steve Jobs, even though he’s a techno god and makes these impossibly cool iThings and looks good in a black mock turtleneck, was just plain WRONG when he said people don’t read anymore.

I was going to write that, and it was going to be a good, insightful, witty, fact-based, take-that! kind of thing.

I was going to write that … but I went online to check a fact, and I came across this piece on nytimes.com by the great Timothy Egan, who says it way better than I ever could. So, take that! Mr. Apple man, um, what he said…