Surely, out of the billions of books that exist in the world right now, some will survive 5000 years. The Library of Congress is archiving many (but no longer all) tweets [1] and web pages. The British Library is similarly archiving tweets, podcasts, etc. The Internet Archive idem ditto, and many national libraries throughout the world are doing the same. If even a tiny fraction of that survives the next 10,000 years, there'll be much more remaining of the 21st century than of the 35th century BC.

[1] https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2017/12/update-on-the-twitter-arch...

But the data on hard drives last a finite amount of time. And so do paper books. Time wears away at both.

Good thing we create things like "forever chemicals", nuclear waste, single-use plastics then I guess ;)

Ok, but we don't know which kind of catastrophic event will wipe us out this time. So we can't know in advance which kind of media will survive best. Replication across many mediums seems the best approach, but it doesn't give us certainty.

The plastic stuff will definitely be around still. Future archaeologists will call us "The great plastic bottle culture"