Margaret Atwood Explains What Books Are Really Good For

“No. 1: They’re still readable when the Cloud goes down. No. 2: They make great kindling. … No. 3: Push comes to shove, they’re great insulating material. You could make a little igloo out of books if you really had to. I think of them as a form of carbon sequestration – all the CO2 is tied up in books.”