"Eventually, the challenges of maintaining the library became greater than the will to preserve it. 'It is not that the disappearance of a library led to a dark age, nor that its survival would have improved those ages,' the classics scholar Roger Bagnall has written. The fact that the library was allowed to die showed that the dark age had already arrived."

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/08/reading-crisis-postliterate-age/687618/?gift=0JbY9lq_dtJFE8gDQT2RrB_1Z5eXJGo2n4G7u261f1o