'Bibliotheca' Bible Project Blows Up On Kickstarter With Chapterless Bible
Yasmine Hafiz
What if reading the Bible was more like reading a novel?
Graphic artist and book designer Adam Lewis Greene has envisioned a Bible without chapters and his idea has found incredible success on the crowd-funding site Kickstarter. He hopes his design will emphasize the role of the Bible as a great literary text by taking away conventions which have been added to increase its usability as a tool for study.
Since posting his "Bibliotheca" project on Kickstarter on June 27, 2014, with the goal of raising $37,000 to produce a first run, the amount contributed by backers has shot up to over $800,000 as of press time. Over 8,000 people from around the world have funded the project. The fundraising drive ends on Sunday, July 27, 3014.
The website describes Bibliotheca as "The entire biblical library in four elegant volumes, designed purely for reading. The text is reverently treated in classic typographic style, free of all added conventions such as chapter numbers, verse numbers, section headers, cross references and notes."
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