I side with the opening statement in the first video titled “Movable Typeset” that the movable typeset invention and process, created by Johannes Gutenberg craftsman and inventor, proves to be a major creation that helped further the production and circulation in the literary world. Before his invention, scholars relied on scribes who weren’t one-hundred percent liable to transcribe without any errors and other modes of creating “books” that took a lot of time to produce and share. But the invention of the movable typeset saved time in creating books and made it even more possible for copies of books to reach the hands of the public, especially since books were made affordable by the average buyer, and the books were more accurate compared to if it were made by a scriber who could have faulted in their production of the book. As a result of how much time and effort it took to create books that included scribes and block printing, an underwhelming number of less than 30,000 books resided in all of Europe. That’s such a low quantity to think about. In an entire continent, only less than 30,000 books. However, that number shot up to the tens of millions after the Gutenberg movable typeset was created. I can imagine that authors were excited to work with the printing press, eager to have copies of their books reach a wider range of viewers in triple the amount before the press was invented. I think authors clamored to work one-on-one with the printing press and maybe even saw to the production of their books with their own eyes.

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