[HN Gopher] How "the king of the world's booksellers" produced m...
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       How "the king of the world's booksellers" produced manuscripts
        
       Author : seventyhorses
       Score  : 34 points
       Date   : 2021-04-22 21:14 UTC (1 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (lithub.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (lithub.com)
        
       | misthop wrote:
       | This is a great read on what it took to make a manuscript. The
       | printing press was one of the great leaps in human history, but
       | the effort savings are not always obvious. This article really
       | lays out just haw laborious the work was prior to the press.
        
         | dhosek wrote:
         | One book I've read in the last few years was Mark Kurlansky's
         | _Paper_. Just that tiny corner of the story is a remarkably
         | rich bit of history. https://www.dahosek.com/dewey-decimal-
         | project-676-09-kur-pap...
        
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