As an example, consider the following quote from James Burke’s “Connections” series about a “crafty way” the Library of Alexandria assembled their collection:
Now, they got these scrolls, either because the local scholars wrote them or because they had a rather crafty law. See, if you came to Alexandria on a boat and you owned a book you had to lend it to the library to be copied. And sometimes the copies were so good the owners went off with the fakes and the library kept the original.