Is this a different one from the one I found at Global Grey’s Collection https://www.globalgreyebooks.com/book-of-kells-ebook.html
Global Grey was popular on HN a few years back, and I bought the whole collection.
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#12Instead of the popup and affiliate-link-laden article, you could go right to it: https://digitalcollections.tcd.ie/concern/works/hm50tr726?lo...
the indignity of the entire experience is comedic, and we've come to accept it. the op article is empty aggregation, a little superficial bit of dopamine noise, that's exclusively parasitizing on actual content. the direct link is probably better, but it throws a CAPCHA for me, where I need to click on Indian men on motorcycles to teach an AI what a motorcycle is. sister comment is reporting that the underlying site…
it is a treasure of culture, available to the general public. Support your local library.
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#13The book of Kells is gorgeous and well worth a visit. If you are in Dublin and enjoy this sort of thing, _please_ also take the very short walk over to the Chester Beatty Library ( https://chesterbeatty.ie/ ) as well. It's free and has an absolutely fantastic collection of ancient and sacred manuscripts. I was lucky enough to live across the street from it for several years and it remains one of my favourite museums…
Chester Beatty is a gem. I went into it not expecting much from "museum of books". But it's also in a way a museum of world's religions, which are tightly connected to writing and books. As an atheist who has low opinion on value of religion because of all the deaths they were and still are responsible for, it reminded me of their positive role in history. When you see all those ancient religious books you begin to question whether we would have writing at all without them? Who would go through a painstaking process of duplicating books before Gutenberg if not men devoting their lives to God? Thus carrying light of civilization and creating basis and tools for science to progress later. I know this is not some great revelation, but I felt enlightened a bit after leaving Chester Beatty.
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#14The animated film (same prod crew that made Song of the Sea) is excellent.
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
the indignity of the entire experience is comedic, and we've come to accept it. the op article is empty aggregation, a little superficial bit of dopamine noise, that's exclusively parasitizing on actual content. the direct link is probably better, but it throws a CAPCHA for me, where I need to click on Indian men on motorcycles to teach an AI what a motorcycle is. sister comment is reporting that the underlying site…
it is a treasure of culture, available to the general public. Support your local library.
I don't understand the point you're trying to make and how it relates to what I said.
the book of kell is available both as a facsimile from specialist publishers (/my/ local library has it in extended rotation) and as a 2006 dvd from trinity college library.
but I'm not even talking about that
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#16The error message "The requested URL was rejected. Please consult with your administrator." is from an F5 Networks Application Security Manager
firewall and can usually be addessed by clearing certain cookies in your browser.
I was able to get it to load using Chrome with all cookies cleared, but it does appear to be getting the "hug of death" as well as mywacaday says in another comment.
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#17I saw the real life Book of Kells earlier this year and it was so pristine and high quality it didn't look real, like seriously looked like a modern fancy reprint, it was a bit confusing!
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
it is a treasure of culture, available to the general public. Support your local library.
I don't understand the point you're trying to make and how it relates to what I said. the book of kell is available both as a facsimile from specialist publishers (/my/ local library has it in extended rotation) and as a 2006 dvd from trinity college library. but I'm not even talking about that
> why even go looking at the book of kells ... etc
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#19Re: The Book of Kells, now digitized and available online
#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't understand the point you're trying to make and how it relates to what I said. the book of kell is available both as a facsimile from specialist publishers (/my/ local library has it in extended rotation) and as a 2006 dvd from trinity college library. but I'm not even talking about that
> why even go looking at the book of kells ... etc
why even go looking at the book of kells is the sentiment about the deliberate versus knee jerk information consumption, which was prompted by the reflection on the levels of ugliness and indignity supporting the knew jerk consumption. it wasn't a comment on the value of book of kells, or the effort of making it available to the public.