The Size of the Study Room Doesn't Indicate Devotion to the Text

A study room would be storage for other scrolls, the non toru scrolls. You don't need extra storage for scrolls because you have so few. A whole tora scroll in their day would have been the equivalent of about three quarters of a million dollars. If you wanted to study deuteronomy, well, you had to go to the next town over 11 miles away.