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Unlike wax tablets, books didn’t break or melt, and unlike scrolls, they could be quickly thumbed through to locate a desired passage. Students could carry them to their lectures, generals could mail them to the hinterland, and pagans could hide them in their robes. It was a revolutionary invention.
—
Robert Moor, “Bones of the Book”
From papyrus to paper to print to i-Pads! The book! Jonathan Frazen would’ve been clutching his scrolls.
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