From the Journal of Kostrzyn Lubartów, Wanderer of the Black Woods:

he written wealth of the civilized world is a staggering corpus of history, geography, natural science, literature and philosophy. Unfortunately, most of what is accessible to the average literate man is produced by the western coastal nations and secreted away within the universities and monasteries of those lands. Hopefully this new auto-matic machine I have heard much about—the one that bypasses the exhausting work of the scribe—will rectify the deficit of knowledge among the common folk...