A book is an idea.
Books are the pure thoughts and ideas of the writer, refined and given 'proper' direction by an editor. While a book is the common vessel for the stories, a tablet or a computer seems to be an equally appropriate. However, all of that is unimportant. What matters is the idea. Burning books prevent people from reading the ideas, but there's always the people who hide the ideas and save them for others to find. The computer data that can hold the ideas may be splintered and divided among a bunch of computers, but someone could just delete the data wherever it may be.
So then what's the deal? Computers are just the inferior format and progression just worked itself into stupidity? Not exactly. Everything could be written out of existence by anyone with the sufficient will to do so. As a personal preference, I enjoy reading and holding books, but I know there are people who enjoy reading off a computer screen. The whole debate between which format is "right" is meaningless. Books are books, ideas are ideas. And the purpose of the book was to spread ideas.
Mission accomplished.
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