• ThirdConsul@lemmy.ml
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    4 days ago

    I get your point, but your comparison is a little… off. Wasn’t Gutenberg “printing”, not “writing”?

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      4 days ago

      You’re right, probably better put as: if he’d spent his time writing instead of working on that contraption, he’d have produced more books in the first month.