Seven years later one cylinder's exhaust valve is not working. Ten years later the motor stops running forever one block from the car lot where I had hoped to trade this exceptional evidence of the Second Law of Thermodynamics. I buy a brand new house. One would think several years would go by before the repairs begin. It takes only one week before the Second Law knocks a brick out of the fireplace and breaks the chain on the garage door opener.
Books are there when computers fail.
But books are like computers. They are subject to the Second Law of Thermodynamics. Books wear out. The bindings fail and the covers fall off. The pages become brittle and dissolve into dust.