Even in later ages leather was sometimes employed.
Egyptian literature covered a wide field.

Two of the oldest books that have come down to us are the wise sayings of Qaqemna and Ptah-hotep, the first of whom lived under the Third, the second under the Fifth dynasty.
They are moral treatises like the Proverbs of Solomon or the Discourses of Confucius.

Ptah-hotep already laments that men were not as they had been.

He had reached the age of a hundred and ten years, and had fallen upon degenerate days.

Perhaps he was right, for it would seem that the examination system had already been introduced for the disposal of official posts.