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I concur, with the proviso that "nice technology" must also include the idea compression style of Twitter.
Also, if paper was so expensive, why the hell did they overwrite so much? Status-driven fashion?
I think much of it is that brevity simply wasn't seen as a virtue back then. There were far fewer written works, so you had more time to go through each one.
I detect a contradiction between "brevity not seen as virtue" and "they couldn't afford paragraphs".
Yes, I don't think "couldn't afford paper" is a good explanation, books of this nature were for wealthy people anyway.