No one desired these books. Not a single person.

[He pulls one from a pile offscreen -- just how many has he gathered outside of his dumb little fort? -- and gestures meaningfully with it.]

I want real books! With information in a language I can understand and that isn't about some data that makes no sense anyway. Some of these don't even have anything in them! I want to learn about interesting things. Other worlds, other people. Not the mechanics of a tractor -- although that one was fascinating for a good forty minutes.