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Thank you - a really good post. With no real knowledge of books of the period I learned two or three things about why medieval books in popular culture are as they are. Wrapped in oilskin, heavy bindings with thick clasps, are a product of the parchment not some weird idea of securing books with locks. Throw in some notes on the Ecoasystem of parchment and a few mentally ill scribes and I am in hog heaven

Brilliant - I did not know I was intellectually curious about parchment till you piqued the interest and satisfied it in one go. A real HN post

Cheers

Agreed. Very enjoyable.