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The zimbaldoni (which sound very much like commonplace books were effective at increasing the visibility of an author and helping to spread their work.
People would copy passages, share them with others, and they would in turn copy them.
I'm reminded of:
- social media (on a good day)
- ripped CDs
- mixtapes
- PDFS
- photocopies
- file-sharing like Napster
a deeply unfashionable man is invited into a privileged world and in so doing creates the coolest club on the planet.
John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
