The human history of the institution of the book

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Everyone knows that Johannes Gutenberg, he of the Gutenberg Bible, invented the movable-type printing press, suddenly making the mass production of books possible and, therefore, books themselves affordable for nearly all. But hardly anyone thinks about all the technological developments and all the stages of human inventiveness that made possible those 180-odd copies of the Good Book that Gutenberg churned out from his Mainz workshop in 1455, setting a revolution in motion.

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