metageek.livejournal.com ([identity profile] metageek.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] msmemory_archive 2008-11-05 07:13 pm (UTC)

Yes, supposedly, Alexandria had something like 750,000 scrolls. I would expect, though, that scrolls tended to be shorter than bound books, since they weren't random-access.

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