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Give three ways which early printed books closely resembled manuscripts ?

It was bible printed in 1448, first by Gutenberg in Germany. Pages of that holy volume were fantastically designted in borders in their margins after print. Thus, skill of artists and technocrats combinedly brought out that volume. However, each page in that Bible was not uniform yet it was accepted by Christian readers mostly an unique style of presentation.

Early books were costly. People were illiterate in majority. They could not understand the ideas and themes of many authors, reformers and philosophers. They had to take the books for reading to well educated.

Number of the early books was also lmited like hand written manuscript. The quality of the paper was also not good. Their life was short. They were not to easy handled like hand written manuscripts.