@kristofselle Thank you for the source! This "waste" paper was collected and picked up by paper merchants: it was a recycling economy. https://t.co/idANlkWNUK More #paperhistory flavoured #bookhistory.
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@AliceWickenden Good question! I think that "the culture" practice of recycling paper is rooted in an economic activity of paper traders, book sellers, paper merchants, etc. Paper was a commodity and therefore reused as any other early modern commodity.
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#bookhistory or #paperhistory ? As the #earlymodern book culture was mainly a #paper industry, should future #bookhistory pay more attention to the material flows of paper? I think so. https://t.co/idANlkWNUK