I agree there could be other organizations that preserve knowledge, but Wayists in every spire should be doing it too.
Agreed, but do we know that they are present? I dont recall if they mentioned other temples or referred to that one as one of many.
The Library/Collection was introduced as The Great Library of Spire Albion, which at least tries to make is sound unique, in a Seven Wonders of the World sort of way. In fact, as of now that is what I hope it is: one of the Seven Wonders of the Spire World (the spiritual successor to the Library of Alexandria).
Say wayists have a temple and library in every spire, why would they have not shared such an ancient book with other spires before? And this spire had multiple copies, do we know if the printing press has been made yet. If books are so rare, they might not. So this spire might be where the book was first written.
Each temple in each spire, likely to have the collective knowledge of that specific spire. I bet that it is possible that every book written publicly and many private ones were in the library.
Interesting thought. The printing press is historically important because it brought down the unit price of books and made literacy accessible to the masses. But that was because the cost was labor-related; what if the material cost is the prohibitive factor? Paper and otehr wood products are and will always be crazy expensive, so it might not catch on. On the other hand, the way you apparently have to strip leather off the meat slabs periodically to keep them growing would mean they'd have a glut of parchment and Vellum. Though they call it paper, I think, so it could be actual plant pulp/paper.
I dont think they actually have the printing press (at least not in Albion) since the monks had set up their preservation efforts by copying volumes by hand.
