From what I found online, quill was invented only in 600 AD. Greeks and Romans used wax tablets and stylus.
Was it stored on wax tablets as well? Was there any way of copying?
Say, Aristotle works. There are about 1500 pages. You definitely couldn't write with as small of a script on wax, so one modern page should have at least 2-3 more text. That means, there should be at least 3000 wax tablets to for Aristotle works. That's like a full room of tablets! And that's only his works. What about the works of other authors that he read.
Naymerith t1_iuxcolc wrote
They wrote on wax tablets but also things like leather and papyrus. The oldest found papyrus scroll I beleive was in 3000 bc, so it way predates the roman times.