Did You Lose the Poetry of Life in Books?

My one year-old can tell the difference between a book and TV. Can you? As we download ebooks to read together, he says "book." The rest of his intentions involve throwing the tablet into the dog bowl or banging on my laptop until he makes the device do something. Paper books: he tears and throws. At what point, exiting the solar system, did you come to believe that paper books were the only thing of value? When did you lose your power as a creator? When did you fail to understand the collaborative power of information in all forms? Learn a video game. Interpret a movie. Cultural value is in the eye of the beholder. A Librarianaught cannot be a Beholder. Dungeons and Dragons. Look it up. Look everything up--not just the things that affirm your "professionalism."