In 1439 the printing press was invented, making books common. Before that, there were scrolls and codices, but from what I understand, aside from religious texts books weren’t common.
Nowadays people who prefer to be alone have tons of modern hobbies like gaming, photography, crochet, biking, podcasts, the internet in general. So I just wanted to ask; if you prefer solitude, what hobby would you enjoy if you could live in any time before books were common? (with the assumption you had a comfortable life.)
The options I thought of were: collecting something, working out, writing, wood working, gardening, hiking, some instruments, and I’m sure there’s many more.
Storytelling
Embroidery and other types of sewing.
Finding cats to pet.
Hobby!?! You must be in the aristocrat society, so hunting, riding horses, being mean to the peasants.
If not, then who has time for fucking hobbies!
Most likely living alone making my own stuff like candles, needlecrafts, woodworking, botany and etc. So I’d be a witch eventually burned at the stake.
Stomping butter and churning grapes
Embroidery…it’s my other hobby besides reading😂
Is have plenty to do around the house, yard, fields, woods.
Woodworking, building things, cooking. Same hobbies I have now :)
That far in the past? Raising kids and cooking
I think if most of us lived before books we wouldn’t have space in our lives for hobbies lol
Inventing books!
Social bandit. Robin Hood without the tights and the drunken cleric. Not sure how practical a lone bandit would be however. Robin Hood and his non-existent merry men.
More realistically a scribe in a monastery.
probably would’ve just died in child birth
I’d be the bard- the one telling the stories around fires