The authority of a book

Every reader has that moment. Books are a whole world of themselves and in which you have invested imaginative conviction. "I read it in . . . " is the clinching argument among your peers. And then one day you come across something in a book, an erroneous fact, a blatant opinon presented as fact, an interpretation in severe contradiction with your own experience, something just not right. From that moment on, your relationship with books is not quite the same. Not necessarily less, just different. One more step on the path of critical thinking.

Prompted by J. Storrs Hall first couple of paragraphs in an otherwise interesting article on climate change, Some Historical Perspective.