The visual quality of the pages in the above pictures is so inspiring. But its these last three pictures that fascinate me the most, because they involve participation from the people who have read this particular copy of the book – and have left their comments/quotes/ideas/understanding about it in the margins. The book changes completely when that happens, because for the next person reading it, he is reading not only the printed set text but also the handwritten comments by another person, which changes the experience completely.

Image Source: http://kc-cieszyn.pl/index.php is the library website I got all the pictures from.

The last three photos in the post were shared by Professor Dan Boyarski at the CMU School of Design, who photographed them from a book in the Ksiaznica Cieszynska Library, in Cieszyn, Poland.