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by aandrieiev 3722 days ago
Chinese characters allow to "compress" information, at least compared to alphabetic writing systems. That made them relatively transportable.

A good example of how a library might look like at that time can be found here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3cnH5-nMbM Those rolls of slips around characters are books.