[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)
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| 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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