Rosa Planas Ferrer (Palma, 1957) She has written works of fiction, novels, short stories, and poetry. She has stood out for her historical and literary studies. With this essay on the nature of the book and its survival in a world beset by technology, he presents a historical review of what this unique object has been, which is both the greatest work of human design and one of the artistic objects that they better identify different civilizations.

For Rosa Planas, who at one time in her life was a librarian, the book is the best thing that has happened to her, although her continuity is threatened. The book, however, has always faced powerful enemies, emerging victorious from all the attacks it has dealt with. Barbarism, ideological or technological, will not put an end to it, and in this short writing we try to show why.

Freedom and books go together, as in the title we present. Whoever wishes to be free must rub shoulders with the spines of books to ensure independent and continually evolving thinking.