If SH5 was a TV Show

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Nisgeis

...illumintaed...

You keep using that word. I'm not sure it means what you think it means...

[robbo180265]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

You keep using that word. I'm not sure it means what you think it means...

[Nisgeis]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

You keep using that word. I'm not sure it means what you think it means...

I typoed that - meant 'Illuminated'. Speaking of typographical errors, the monks who did the original illuminations had a tough time of it. When the monasteries were established, they made money by selling copies of their charter, partly in the hope to 'educate' the masses and partly in an attempt to fund the monastery. They soon realised that instead of having one monk copy out the whole charter, they could produce more copies and sell more if they had multiple monks copying different pages. They further realised that if instead of selling the first copy they made, they made the copy into a template, they could get a second team of monks copying that template and double their output. To stop any of the templates getting too worn, a rule was passed that once a template had been copied, it should be sold on and the new copy be used as a template for the next copy, with the original placed in the archives for safe keeping.

This was a huge success financially and not only kept the monks occupied, it also provided a steady income for them and was the staple economy of the monastery for over two hundred years. One day, a monk who had been copying templates for many years asked the abbot if he could see the original charter of the monks, so that he might see if style of the document had changed over the many years it had been copied from copies. He was granted permission and went down to the library to look through the archives.

After two days, the monk had not yet come back up from the library and the abbot went down to check on him. He descended the stairs and with candle in hand approached a figure hunched over a desk, weeping. With tears in his eyes, the monk turned to face the abbot and said 'It says CELEBRATE!'.

[JScones]

Originally Posted by Nisgeis

His book is a very good read and well worth a peruse if you like that particular past time.

I did find the rights management obtrusive though - I had to have the book in my hand in order to read it. What if all books were like that? I travel a lot and if all books were like that, I'd have a bag full of heavy books and no room for anything else!

I was also unable to read the book at night, unless I had a constant light source with me, as the book was not self illuminating. There was no warning about having to have a light source in order to read the book, but luckily I have a fairly reliable electricity supply where I live (some of my friends do not though) so this isn't a problem for me. It's a good job I don't go camping, as the cost of torch batteries in order to use this entertainment product would be very high. Once I tried reading the book on the train, but when it went through a tunnel, I lost the light and was unable to use the book for almost a whole minute until the train emerged from the other end.

I read in another post that they had illumintaed books made by monks in ye olden times, so if they could do that hundreds of years ago, why can't they now? Ye olden times monks knew how to treat their customers!

Sh!t trains where you are - all trains here have internal lights.

Monks do have illuminated books - they're called "Kindles"....if not "iPads".

[Nisgeis]

Originally Posted by JScones

Sh!t trains where you are - all trains here have internal lights.

Monks do have illuminated books - they're called "Kindles"....if not "iPads".

It was the only reference I could get to 'losing the wireless signal when going through a tunnel' I could think of. I just threw it in for a bit of a laugh - the very idea that *I* should travel on public transport .

I don't think Kindles are illuminated, are they?

[Bilge_Rat]

Originally Posted by Nisgeis

His book is a very good read and well worth a peruse if you like that particular past time.

I did find the rights management obtrusive though - I had to have the book in my hand in order to read it. What if all books were like that? I travel a lot and if all books were like that, I'd have a bag full of heavy books and no room for anything else!

I was also unable to read the book at night, unless I had a constant light source with me, as the book was not self illuminating. There was no warning about having to have a light source in order to read the book, but luckily I have a fairly reliable electricity supply where I live (some of my friends do not though) so this isn't a problem for me. It's a good job I don't go camping, as the cost of torch batteries in order to use this entertainment product would be very high. Once I tried reading the book on the train, but when it went through a tunnel, I lost the light and was unable to use the book for almost a whole minute until the train emerged from the other end.

I read in another post that they had illumintaed books made by monks in ye olden times, so if they could do that hundreds of years ago, why can't they now? Ye olden times monks knew how to treat their customers!

priceless.

[scratch81]

Originally Posted by Nisgeis

His book is a very good read and well worth a peruse if you like that particular past time.

I did find the rights management obtrusive though - I had to have the book in my hand in order to read it. What if all books were like that? I travel a lot and if all books were like that, I'd have a bag full of heavy books and no room for anything else!

I was also unable to read the book at night, unless I had a constant light source with me, as the book was not self illuminating. There was no warning about having to have a light source in order to read the book, but luckily I have a fairly reliable electricity supply where I live (some of my friends do not though) so this isn't a problem for me. It's a good job I don't go camping, as the cost of torch batteries in order to use this entertainment product would be very high. Once I tried reading the book on the train, but when it went through a tunnel, I lost the light and was unable to use the book for almost a whole minute until the train emerged from the other end.

I read in another post that they had illumintaed books made by monks in ye olden times, so if they could do that hundreds of years ago, why can't they now? Ye olden times monks knew how to treat their customers!

pwned

[Sailor Steve]