"Excellent!"
I took the paper sheet out of Things-Things' hands and examined it.
It was very rough and had a brownish-gray color. If I looked closer, I could make out the chunks of fibers and old clothing it was made of. The edges were cut slightly unevenly.
The letters written on it were deep black, in an even worse chicken scrawl than I was used to. There were a lot of smudges and blotches, but to my delight, the dried-out letters didn't smudge when I rubbed them with a finger.
Then I finally read what it said.
The report had the amount of paper-making presses in existence and calculations on how much paper they can produce, and how much manpower it will take to make each sheet of paper and each new paper-making press.
It was a lot of manpower.
While wax tablets could be just shaped by anyone, and clay tablets (much heavier, but much more durable) were just as simple to make.
But with paper, things were much more complicated than it sounded.
