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The invention of the internet might have changed his priorities.
Erasmus lived a generation after the invention of printing, but books still cost a lot relative to people's incomes back then because he lived too near the beginning of the experience curve in book production. He probably had highly developed mnemonic skills to memorize books in libraries.