Books You Can (Never) Read

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You never know, you might only have a narrow window to enjoy something before its gone. After 7 months, I have returned. In this long installment of Trey the Explainer, I discuss the history of books, literacy, and lost media. Are you ready to learn what you can never know? Thumbnail art by Ida (https://twitter.com/ncdraw?s=20&t=1Qq-9uXASmP593JjT5oQ8w) 00:00 Introduction 03:22 The History of Books and Literacy 10:11 How Books were Lost 15:01 The Lost Books 16:43 Scientific Books 21:47 Historical Books 27:43 Books for Entertainment 33:00 Entire Libraries 36:04 Lost...and Found 39:34 The Importance of Books Edit: I have since realized that some of the information in this video should be more properly cited to their original authors, to avoid taking credit for their hard work. 38:48 (James S. Romm, Ghost on the Throne, 2012, pg. 188 & pg. 122) Citations: Starr, R. J. (1987). The circulation of literary texts in the roman world. The Classical Quarterly, 37(1), 213–223. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0009838800031797 Chuchiak, J. F. (2010). Writing as resistance: Maya graphic pluralism and Indigenous Elite Strategies for survival in Colonial Yucatan, 1550-1750. Ethnohistory, 57(1), 87–116. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2009-055 Oleson, J. P., Clarysse, W., & Vandorpe, K. (2012). The Oxford Handbook of Engineering and Technology in the classical world. Oxford University Press. Romm, J. S. (2012). Ghost on the throne: The death of alexander the great and the war for Crown and Empire. Alfred A. Knopf. Townsend, C. (2019). Annals of native america: How the nahuas of colonial mexico kept their history alive. Oxford University Press. Netz, R. (2020). Scale, space and canon in ancient literary culture. Cambridge University Press. Diodorus. (?). The library. Philip Ii, Alexander the Great, and the successors. (R. Waterfield, Trans.). Oxford University Press. Restall, M. (2019). When Montezuma Met Cortés: The true story of the meeting that changed history. Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. Madrigal, A. C. (2010, August 5). Google: There are exactly 129,864,880 books in the world. The Atlantic. Retrieved August 11, 2022, from https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2010/08/google-there-are-exactly-129-864-880-books-in-the-world/61024/ Music licensed from Epidemic Sound All copyrighted images belong to their respective owners. Most images were taken from the Wikimedia Commons under the Creative Commons licenses. Special thanks to Dr. Jordan Pickett Dr. Barbara E. Mundy Dr. Matthew Restall Yuric INC (@Yuric_INC.) MajoraZ Rafael Mena (among others)