Oliver:
>This doesn't ring true to me. Why would they use such an ephemeral
material
>like paper made out of living things (shudder) when they are surrounded by
>vast quantities of metal and stone?
Good paper is not made of wood, but linen, cotton, or other materials, and
thus
doesn't require acid to make it into pulp. Paper produced without acid
easily lasts many hundreds of years and is, by the way, much longer-lasting
than pergament and vellum. Paper produced in S.T. 1 could easily still be
around in the 1600s.
Now where could Mostali get such plant fiber?
Daniel
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