"The printing press was now a century old, but rather than making obsolete the copying and sharing of documents in manuscript form, print actually increased the importance and prevalence of handwritten text [...] As more people learned to read and write, the circulation of handwritten documents of all types took off. Copying and recopying documents by hand, impractical in the age of parchment, became paradoxically widespread in the age of print."
Tom Standage, Social Media: The First 2000 Years