Books and clay tablets

Will today's book be tomorrow's "clay tablet"? Some say books will become obsolete in today's advancing digitized world while others say it will become an art form. Perhaps this type of discussion is really moot as the literary device should not be the object of concern. Instead the preservation of the literary word for tomorrow's generation of readers should be the focus of the literati. Lugalbanda, our oldest story written on clay tablets 5000 years ago, was republished in 2006. Perhaps in 5000 years children will still read the story of the Sumerian king in an art form we can only imagine.