The cost of literacy [medieval hist]

I knew that other contemporaneous cultures than those of Europe had unfathomably higher numbers of books than Europeans did, but I didn't know about this in retrospect obvious reason why: 2026 Mar 19: Dwarkesh Patel feat. Ada Palmer [DwarkeshPatel YT]: " Why Medieval Books Cost as Much as a House " (1 min, 7 sec): Without papyrus, what you're writing on is a dead sheep. And if you think of the…