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		markatto on April 23, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Seattle Public Library is reducing maximum dig... A half century? Surely that must be a typo?

geraldwhen on April 23, 2024 [–]

Why? People have been illiterate for most of human history. So even if libraries existed, they could not be used.

_djo_ on April 23, 2024 | [–]

I think the OP meant ‘half a millennium’.

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