[A] book ... unlike a television program, moving picture or any other modern means of communication ... can wait for years, yet be available at any moment when it happens to be needed.
Source: More Lives Than One, 1962.
-- Joseph Wood Krutch, (Nov 25 1893-1970), US naturalist, conservationist, writer, critic.; He wrote for The Nation, 1924-1951; his varied works included The Measure of Man, 1955.