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Originally Posted by CommonReader
Apart from the other issues raised in this post I do wonder if private reading is indeed such a "recent" phenomenon. I seem to recall that wealthy Romans did have private studies in ancient times and so did to my knowledge the ancient Chinese. It is no surprise that in Europe private reading started at the time when books became affordable thanks to book printing.
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What CommonReader said.
Of course people couldn't read alone if they didn't have books.
My response to the OP's pretentious monk friend would have been, 'Whatcha smokin', dude?' I never heard such nonsense.