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thesuitonym on July 16, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: What's happening to reading?

It's worth noting that for most of human history, all writing has been behind a paywall.

doka_smoka on July 16, 2025 [–]

For most of the history in context of the article, libraries have been a thing

thesuitonym on July 17, 2025 | [–]

Yes, but its only in the last hundred or so years that public access libraries have been the norm.

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