> "More books than ever" will be eternally true unless we actively destroy books (god no).

You are right, of course. My phrasing was off. I meant to say that we produce more books than ever.

Although that is also a bit of a misleading statement. It is factually true that we produce more books per annum than ever before, but the average book now sells far less than 1,000 copies in it's lifetime (one source I found said around 500) and the growth in quantity has not produced a corresponding growth in quality.

> I don't see books as something that needs to be read continually.

Fair enough. There are only so many hours in a lifetime, and we all have to choose how we spend the ones allotted to us. Although, personally I feel that the world would be better off if people spent more of them reading fiction, and fewer on social media.