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The Diamond Sutra, the oldest dated printed book (2016) (www.smithsonianmag.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Pretty sure there are printed books from before 2016

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Umm the article came out in 2016 , the article is about a 1100 year old printed text on a scroll 868 a.d