How did people make books before printing?
Books by Hand
How did people make books before printing?
Before machines could stamp out thousands of books in an afternoon, every single book had to be made by hand. One word at a time. One page at a time. One book at a time.
The job belonged to scribes — people who spent their entire lives copying texts. Most worked in monastery rooms called scriptoriums, where rows of scribes sat in silence, writing from dawn until their candles burned low at night.
