logoalt Hacker News

XargonEndertoday at 7:51 PM1 replyview on HN

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.


Replies

WalterBrighttoday at 8:23 PM

Mass literacy was the result of printing presses, not the cause.