Do not hope to get rid of books!

Have you become accustomed to reading from the computer screen, mobile phone, electronic "reader"? You do not go to the bookstores and is suppressed in the library? Do you hope to get rid of books? "Don"t Note!" - They say two European intellectuals, the participants offered to you friendly conversation: "The book is like a spoon, hammer, wheel or scissors. After they were invented, you can"t think of anything better ". Umberto Eco is the famous Italian writer, a mediocreter and semiotics. Jean-Claude Quarry is a famous French novelist, a historian, screenwriter, actor, the Patriarch of French Cinema, who collaborated with such directors as Bunuel, Godard, Waida and Milos Foreman.
Passion of both - books: old and new, popular and rare, smart and stupid. And the subject of their passion, they defend, commissioning all their erudition and wit. The authors are easily moving from serious those transmission of knowledge in culture, the role of papyrus and mnemonotechnics, the Internet and e-books - to historical jokes and domestic curios. Between the case, the reader finds out why We are owned by their knowledge about the past. And why Umberto Eco read the "War and World" only in forty years.
This book about the fate of books is a nostalgic recognition in love and a good defensive speech in favor of itself.
2nd edition, with minor changes