Whither books in the digital age? The Washington Post's Bob Thompson takes a journey to Google-land where the search engine giant is hell-bent on digitizing the Stanford University libraries' "roughly 9 million books." Writers and publishers are none too happy about it. 
Narrative writers can also profit from the way Thompson, the Post's former magazine editor, uses an easy-to-grasp detail to guide the way through some fairly abstract territory that surrounds Google's digitization plans, such as copyright infringement, scalabity and crawlers.
His vehicle, discovered while prowling Stanford stacks, is Lillian's Dean's 1950 travelogue "This Is Our Land" -- the story of one family's "pleasant and soul-satisfying auto journey across our continent."
Also known by its call number E169 D3, it's an ideal way to carry the reader through the "contested legal territory" of Google's ambitious scanning campaign.
At once a fact, a symbol, and a clever literary device, E169 D3 carries the reader 
up and down an abstraction ladder that enables readers to grasp our complex world, in Thompson's case, from start to finish. Keep your eyes peeled for the likes of an E169 D3 when you face a similar challenge.
(For more on journalism and the abstraction ladder, see this academic paper by Michelle Rommell of Western Connecticut State University; tough slogging, but worth the trip.)
(Images: Books via DATAPRO; Abstraction ladder via iSixSigma)
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