Summary
Computers and Internet are not the threat to books and literary culture. Theoretically, the Internet can be a means to disseminate texts. The enemy of the books is, however, radical transformation of human thought, the emergence of so-called „click-thinking,” which is not able to receive a long linear text. The point is that the human ability to switch from one to the other disparate information increases on account of the reduced ability to focus on a single fragment. The entire Western culture of the twentieth century had been dealing with preparations for the emergence of „click-thinking”, while the elements of such a relationship to a book appeared even earlier at the time when it ceased to be a comprehensive aesthetic object and became an applied instrument. If publishing somehow survive, the modern reader may refer to the book only as a compendium of fragments.

Keywords:
computer, Internet, books, reading, publishing, information, cognitive processes, education.

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