David Rothman (davidrothman@pobox.com), a writer in Alexandria, VA, has been writing on e-books and libraries since the early 1990s and founded TeleRead, the oldest English language site offering general e-book news and views. In his information stimulus essay in James Fallows� Atlantic blog, he told how the U.S. could cost-justify a national digital library system and other useful endeavors by using technology to divert resources from public and private bureaucracy.