Umberto Eco
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The book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer, the wheel. Once invented, it cannot be improved. You cannot make a spoon that is better than a spoon... The book has been thoroughly tested, and it's very hard to see how it could be improved on for its current purposes.
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| BETTER | 326 clues |
| BOOK | 188 clues |
| EBOOK | 153 clues |
| IMPROVE | 126 clues |
| IMPROVEMENT | 124 clues |
| INVENT | 51 clues |
| INVENTIONS | 2 clues |
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