[vegedor]

You don't die without them, Books are not essential for Live. They are not really essential for learning development either, but an essential factor in the development of culture since the invention of the book-press.

Consider the intrinsic value to be much higher than the production cost of books, so much that free information can be guarantied by law, where books should be equal to internet access, a telephone and if you will a TV; or the socially direct communication through people. Books as medium are inseparable from the speech and should therefore remain free speech and not seizable, whether essential or merely sufficient. This is partly guaranteed through public libraries, but the capacity is limited, compared to a distributed model.

tl;dr: didn't read the link :/