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Books in history John Vivian The introduction of mass-produced books in the 15th century marked a turning point in human history. 15世纪大批量生产图书的采用标志着人类历史中的重要转折点。Before then, books were?? handwritten, usually by scribist monks who copied existing books onto blank sheets of paper letter by letter, one page at a time.在那之前，书是手抄的，一般都是由那些超抄录员修道士把存在的书籍一个字一个字抄在空白纸页上，每次一页。 These scribists could turn out only a few hand-lettered books in a lifetime of tedium. 这些抄录员在他们单调冗长的一生中只能制造出很有限几本手写的书。 In the middle-1400s, Johannes Gutenberg, a tinker in what is now Germany, devised an innovation that made it possibl