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		samarthr1 on Sept 26, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 3x new books added to the Pirate Library Mirror Actually, if you were a scholar in ancient India, knowledge was mostly state funded. Don't have a citation off the top of my head though.

giantg2 on Sept 26, 2022 [–]

That's roughly true worldwide -leader would pay for books to be written. But someone still had to pay, and copies tended to be limited. And if course then there were the book burnings to eradicated knowledge dangerous to the current leader.

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