That skit must have been the inspiration for a gag in Wall-E. The captain of the Axiom is given a book of procedures for returning to Earth. This being 700 years in the future, he has never seen a book before, so he first tries talking to it. When that doesn't work, "Auto", his computerized first officer, shows him how to open it and turn the pages. The captain is very impressed.
I can't say I share the sentimentality for books. Yeah, they're easy to use but they are heavy, bulky. hold relatively little information, and are difficult to search. They contain only text and still images, no video or audio. You can't resize the text if you have trouble reading it. They usually cannot be updated to the current version; they have to be discarded and replaced.