I might have missed it, but I'm surprised no-one has picked old-fashioned printing. It's great to see pixels people getting hands on with ink and type!

Thank you! That is really interesting to know.

I am in the middle of writing something a bit like this, although I am not a historian and it remains to be seen whether the end result will be interesting!

This question is opening up a whole new world of nun-rear adjacent foodstuffs!

Books are assumed to be middle-class & decorative. People who read are assumed to have space to house them & leisure to read them. Wanting to have books to consult at work is seen as self-indulgent rather than practical, despite copious evidence that we read and remember physical books differently.

The more I think about it, the more furious I am at the class politics barely hidden in the refusal to consider books as serious scholarly tools. Universities don't tell physicists they need to keep their lasers at home.

Amazing! And now I'm hungry.

Interesting...

And wondering if I could carry off the greeting proposed by John Eliot in 1593: 'Come, cullion let me crush thy callibisters with accoling thy buttockes. Shake handes.'

Double digits is a lot.