scary but true

via bookslut again, an article that reveals a startling trend in library non-fiction borrowers. More startling still, the book's designer (one of the designers, anyway) is a really good friend of mine who spent her college years designing more sophisticated work than all of her peers and most of our instructors. I'm rather glad she can see the tragi-comic side of this, because otherwise I'd feel so bad for her. As it is, I still feel bad for her because I know that her dream job in publishing didn't work out (and if any one of us deserved it, it would have been her).