Use of Wax Tablets (1 ene 1250 año aC – 1 ene 1860 año)

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Wax tablets were made of beeswax dyed black or red, enclosed in an outer layer of wooden boards. Similar to clay tablets, they were written on with a stylus and could be erased using the flat end of the stylus. Because they were easily erasable, they were more commonly used for note-taking or teaching rather than for record-keeping. Their use decreased when paper became more widely available and cheaper to produce during the 19th century, but their format heavily influenced the format of the codex.

Galbraith, S. K. (2020). A Brief History of the Book: From Tablet to Tablet (pp. 13–17). Bloomsbury Publishing.

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