Genderswitched Bilbo makes The Hobbit a better read

It does in the headline. Which may point, again, to the problem BoingBoing’s headline authors have of overstating the case to catch attention… and then having discussion react to the headline as much as (or more than) the actual story. (Which, I think, is exacerbated by the decision to move discussion outline, but I’ve given up on that debate; what we’ve got is what we’ve got until the next “hey, I’ve got a better mousetrap” comes along.)

(My ball-bearing mousetrap doesn’t catch mice. He’s hell on millipedes, though. And actually he isn’t ball-bearing any more.)