OPINION

Is Text Inadequate?

By Terry Calhoun

One weekend back in January, my wife, myself, our three fairly grown kids, and one spouse-in-law drove to eastern Ohio to celebrate a late Christmas with my mother. Since we’d been waved off by my “back home” family on a previous weekend (they’d all contracted some nasty non-computer bug), we were eager to go. But the stretch of the Ohio Turnpike between Toledo and Youngstown is one of the most completely boring stretches of road in the United States.

So, on the way out east I read a book by J.A. Jance titled Edge of Evil. It was okay; not nearly one of her best, but she made a good stab at creating and working with an ordinary character whose personal and professional web of communications included email, instant messaging, and blogging. As I read, I thought that Jance had taken the best stab at this of any author I have yet read...

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