The Good Gray Lady has a tendency to take some small trend and, well, inflate it on Page One.

(Your bitter memories go here.)

Exhibit Triple-Y:

Wednesday’s front-page piece headlined “In E-Book Era, You Can’t Even Judge a Cover.”

Nut graf:

With a growing number of people turning to Kindles and other electronic readers, and with the Apple iPad arriving on Saturday, it is not always possible to see what others are reading or to project your own literary tastes.

You can’t tell a book by its cover if it doesn’t have one.

And you can’t judge a news report if it doesn’t have one key fact – in this case, that e-books make up about 5% of the total book buying market.

Which means this piece is roughly 95% wrong.

Your judgment goes here.