A Canine Appetite for Reading

The New York Times reports that a "trove of books that were among the last ones that Thomas Jefferson, the nation’s most bibliophilic president, collected and read in the decade before he died" has been discovered.

Jefferson's taste in books--in his own words, he had a canine appetite for reading--should give scholars further evidence of where he got his ideas and what influenced him. As the article so eloquently states, "the physical collection is not as critical as what it represents intellectually."

I suppose that collecting the video games and dvds of the next generation may provide evidence of where they got their ideas and what influenced them, but sadly...a "canine appetite for gaming," doesn't have as sweet of a ring to it.