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The popular focus on the library of Alexandria as a cultural touchstone is itself an interesting topic because we can trace it to specific events, e.g. Carl Sagan making a big deal out of it, you can literally see the mentions to it exploding in the literature after his popular show

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Copying of ancient and medieval texts was quite less glamorous and more complicated than "everything is centralized in one place and things are lost forever if the one place is gone"

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