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The ancient Romans gradually replaced the "long scroll," approach to long-form published writing with the codex. Why did it take the Romans a couple of centuries to switch over, despite the many advantages of the codex? Were codexes harder or more expensive to create than sets of scrolls?

by /u/RusticBohemian in /r/AskHistorians

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