What were books like in ancient Greece and Rome?

In different passage, Aulus tells us about some bookstalls he came across when he arrived by ship at the port of Brundisium ...
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Ancient scrolls are being ‘read’ by machine learning – with human knowledge to detect language and make sense of them

C. Michael Sampson receives funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada for 'the Books of Karanis,' a project that studies fragmentary Greek literature from the Egyptian ...