One of the fundamental things in a medieval book is letters – those symbols that fill up page after page and that make up meaning. Each one of us human beings writes differently and considering that medieval books were made before the invention of print, it follows that the scripts they carry show a great variety in execution styles. This is perhaps the most amazing experience of spending a day going through a pile of medieval books in the library: the immense variation in the manner in which the text is written on the parchment pages.
From monks and scribes copying books letter by letter, we have now arrived at the point where the best book ever written is just a few clicks away.
Actually I would say that Lord of the Rings is the best book ever written.
Best book is a very personal and subjective opinion, one persons love is another’s hate etc. It certainly can’t be pinned down to one book.
The second link is broken. It points to “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,” rather than Dune by Frank Herbert.
Edited 2016-04-30 07:41 UTC
Ah yeah. If it’s broke, break it more. The time-honored IT solution.
Now, if you want to fix it, it should point to The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy.
The market decides what is best and it is never wrong.
The best book is Twilight.
s/market/marketing
Sorry Kuan_e, but that is plain and stinking BS, fully open can.
You have presented very good judgments, but this isn’t one.
As long as bots continue to fail to understand sarcasm, I still have a reason for hanging around.
Is that also part of a standard Turing test?
The market decides what is commercially most successful. What is “best” depends on the angle you look at it.
Nobody would consider the best selling record the “best” in every aspect but there is definitely something as good and mediocre music. And a lot of the latter sells very well.
It’s the most correct and efficient allocation of resources, don’t you know? Whatever it decides as the most commercially successful is the best because it is never wrong.
… And the best restaurant is McDonald’s.
That’s right. Can’t argue with the market. It is all knowing and all wise.
Christians would consider the good book as the best book. It’s not just about entertainment after all.
Do you have a better idea than capitalism?
Christians consider a lot of things good. Doesn’t mean they are.
I was expecting a link to a gorgeously enluminated manuscript.
Or Arabic calligraphy, Chinese letters or stone-engraved Hieroglyphs.
Or TeX.
Incommensurable Art awaiting for a little TRACING, FORGING & UPLOADING mis~A(c)ricorde, and here We are, infatuated with this scarcity inducted, castrating COPYRIGHT CENTURY.
Short Sight. Guilty I am, too. [Where are my lenses?].
Not a single piece of art should be presented to pupils, if copyrighted, even in the slightest of the the forms.
A young artistic mind shouldn’t be ‘subject’. That’s an axiomatic contradiction.
If there is one thing Unrestrained Capitalism hates is that Nietzchean spirit of exuberance.