Neat quote about books

I am reading the book: DEWEY, the small-town Library Cat who touched the World by Vicki Myron with Bret Witter.

If you have not read it yet, its a great read. About Iowa, Cats, Libraries, Small Towns. I am not done yet but its better than Marley, in that Dewey Readmore Books touched more lives when he was alive, than Marley possibly did posthumously.

Anyway on page 164 I gleaned this truthful tidbit about the Book as a media type.
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The covers may be more colorful, the art more expressive, and the type more contemporary, but in general the books look the same as they did in 1982. (when Dewey showed up as a frostbitten kitten in the book drop of the Spencer Public Library)
And that's not going to change. Books have survived television, radio, talking pictures, circulars (early magazines) dailies (early newspapers), Punch and Judy shows, and Shakespeare's plays. They have survived World War II, the Hundred Years' War, the Black Death, and the fall of the Roman Empire. They even survived the Dark Ages, when almost no one could read and each book had to be copied by hand. They aren't going to be killed off by the Internet,

And I can add Kindle, and video games, and all kinds of other things to this quote. It is a very user friendly media. Amazon.com, Barnes and Nobles and other bookstores are thriving. Libraries may not have the circulation statistics that they used to have, and the book drop at the Spencer Public Library is no longer full, because many are using the Internet for research, but books are handy, comfortable and will be around for a long time to come.