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Of course!

There were people whose entire identities were tied to being able to manually copy a book.

Just imagine how much they seethed as printing press was popularized.



Is that how it went, I wonder?

https://academic.oup.com/book/27066?login=false

Seems the scribes kept going for a good hundred years or so, doing all the premium and arty publications.




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