The Beautiful Book

OK, I admit it. I like things that look good.

Like the 'smoking a pipe (if I smoked that is) with glass of port/sitting comfortably in a deep green wingback Chesterfield chair/wood-panelling surrounding the room' good. See Chesterfield chair in the blog title for inspiration.

Like beautiful photography. Take a look at this site of a friend of mine and you'll get what I mean.

If you take the trouble to make something look beautiful and pleasing to the eye, whatever it may be, you will definitely have my attention.

And when it comes to books, it's no different. You could give me the best book ever written to read, but if it's in Times New Roman font with cheap paper in a glued paperback form, I will either not read it or begrudge every second of the reading task.

I guess to some, expressing this quirk may seem trite. Maybe you're right, maybe it is a silly thing. I can't explain my bent towards the beautiful. I simply find it very hard to sit down and read a slab of words without some kind of aesthetic relief to get me through it.

In 2011 I bought a new Bible and I'd like to show you it as an example of something I have found pleasing to the eye.

I love the Bible. God speaks through it. I am enjoying my new Bible for this reason, but it helps that it's beautifully presented too.

    Provide beautiful presentation and you have my attention. Confessions of an aesthetic diehard.

PS: It's the NIV (2011) Study Bible in 'personal' size.