Though few spellcasters now utilize this format for spellbooks, some traditionalists among dwarves and in parts of Garund prefer this older style of preserving writing.Ī folded codex is made by pleating a single long sheet of paper, or several sheets that have been sewn or glued together to form a longer surface. Larger, more important spellbooks in scroll format generally have spindles at either end to make them easier to transport and to offer some protection against crushing and creasing. Scrolls have been around much longer than codices or other forms of bound books, which means many of the oldest and most powerful spellbooks are actually recorded on long strips of paper that must be unrolled to be read. For this reason, scholars often prefer to study original sources. The secretive nature of wizards often means some of the information in an ancient spellbook may be hidden, and thus not available to be copied into a new format. Therefore, the largest schools of magic in the Inner Sea region not only encourage students to use bound codices for their own spellbooks, but also have extensive programs focused on copying older spellbooks that exist in different formats into new codices.
The classic book version of a spellbook, a bound codex has significant advantages in terms of functionality over most other collections of writing.
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Both download and print editions of such books should be high quality.SPELLBOOK STYLES OF THE INNER SEA The term “spellbook” refers to any collection of writings used to store information about spells used by wizards and other classes, regardless of whether the writing is truly in a “book.” Throughout the Inner Sea region, spellbooks can take numerous different forms. Most newer books are in the original electronic format. Also, their file size tends to be smaller than scanned image books. These ebooks were created from the original electronic layout files, and therefore are fully text searchable. We mark clearly which print titles come from scanned image books so that you can make an informed purchase decision about the quality of what you will receive. The text is fine for reading, but illustration work starts to run dark, pixellating and/or losing shades of grey. It's the problem of making a copy of a copy. Unfortunately, the resulting quality of these books is not as high. We essentially digitally re-master the book. Also, a few larger books may be resampled to fit into the system, and may not have this searchable text background.įor printed books, we have performed high-resolution scans of an original hardcopy of the book. However, any text in a given book set on a graphical background or in handwritten fonts would most likely not be picked up by the OCR software, and is therefore not searchable. The result of this OCR process is placed invisibly behind the picture of each scanned page, to allow for text searching.
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Most older books are in scanned image format because original digital layout files never existed or were no longer available from the publisher.įor PDF download editions, each page has been run through Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software to attempt to decipher the printed text. These products were created by scanning an original printed edition.
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