An Introduction to the Codex Seraphinianus, the Strangest Book Ever Published

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• inasio18 minutes ago
  I have a nice copy, at least as of a few years ago you can get them for relatively cheap. I've been meaning to put scans of the text into OpenCV and play a bit to see if there's an underlying code. The number system in the page numbers has been cracked as far as I know.
• ggm1 hour ago
  Copies hung around my partners secondhand bookshop for years. This was in the 1980s. Properly shelved under &quot;esoterica&quot;<p>1st Ed. Now worth $6,000 oh well.
  • giraffe_lady36 minutes ago
    My local (but big city) library had a circulating copy until about five years ago. It mostly stayed in my home, once or twice a year someone else would request it and I&#x27;d give it back for a few months. It&#x27;s in library use only now but I took great care of it lol.
• wewewedxfgdf1 hour ago
  It is so strange that books like this cost hundreds and hundreds of dollars to buy.<p>You might think the publisher would ........ publish some to sell.
  • pavel_lishin1 hour ago
    There might not be <i>that</i> much demand. My understanding is that a <i>good</i> printing of a book will only make money back in pretty large amounts; if there&#x27;s only a thousand weirdos in the world who want to buy it (and I&#x27;m one of those thousand), it&#x27;ll only barely break even, if that.<p>Actually, I&#x27;m wrong, there is a newly published version that costs under a hundred bucks.
  • habitue14 minutes ago
    The first edition is expensive. The current edition is ~$90 for a full color hardcover (expensive but not ruinius if you really want it)