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by XargonEnder 28 days ago
Your comment makes me wonder what the historical ratio was between books and readers. I know that books were in very short supply a thousand years ago, but readers were also very short in supply. I wonder if things are worse in the tiktok era or the pre-printing press era.
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Mass literacy was the result of printing presses, not the cause.