Are books "inanimate"?
# [adj] appearing dead; not breathing or having no perceptible pulse; "an inanimate body"; "pulseless and dead"
# [adj] not endowed with life; "the inorganic world is inanimate"; "inanimate objects"; "dead stones"
# [adj] (linguistics) belonging to the class of nouns denoting nonliving things; "the word `car' is inanimate"