While the demise of The Books is an unfortunate turn of events it has yielded multiple great things in its wake. First, obviously, is the rise of Zammuto - a highly worthy Books substitute. Secondly, a box set is in the works of The Books releases, b-sides and more. Go ahead and put me down for one. And, lastly, Nick Zammuto has been blogging some really insightful / intriguing / enjoyable blog entries on the background behind some of The Books songs. He's posted a great read on the bands, prologue and their first track, Enjoy Your Worries, You May Never Have Them Again. While I enjoy reading about the history of the band I'm equally entranced to find out what each sample is from and to hear new layers of sound that I somehow missed before, for instance:

If you listen carefully you’ll hear my voice slightly ahead, doubling the text, which I recorded by speaking each phrase as a loop until I ran out of breath. I isolated each ‘out of breath’ phrase and reassembled them to match the original so that it sounded as if I was constantly running out of breath throughout the entire rant.

Long story short, start reading the Zammuto Blog if you aren't already. You'll enjoy it.