Random weird tidbit about me and Bibles

[kajarainbow]

I like Bibles. It has nothing to do with their contents. I like the way they look, I like the textures of their covers, I like the way the extremely thin pages feel as I ruffle through the book.

That's what Bibles are to me. The delights of their textures.

Comments

[asrinmoore.livejournal.com]

I find this amazingly fascinating, and sort of creepy, but not bad. I'm going to go home and fondle my bible, after work, now. THANKS. :)

[kajarainbow.livejournal.com]

I'm just a tactile gourmet. ;)

[asrinmoore.livejournal.com]

Makes two of us, I just never thought about a bible as a source of, uhh,... well, yeah.

[bossgoji.livejournal.com]

Heh, you should see my copy of "The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy." Gold leaf on the pages, leatherbound... the smell alone would drive a bookslut mad with envy. >=3

[circuit-four.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. I wonder how much it would cost to get a book that's not the Bible professionally printed and bound to look like one? It would be interesting to do for Bibles what the Thackery T. Lambshead Guide did for medical manuals. I'd be astonished, in fact, if somebody hasn't done it already. (And I wonder if, say, old dictionaries or old engineering manuals, with similarly archaic printing and binding would push the same buttons? They certainly do for me.) You might be interested in checking into something called the "Queen James Version" -- I only got to glance at it in a bookstore once, but it was a queer-friendly satirical Bible -- a real KJV, but with all the naughty bits highlighted and extensively footnoted...