As Professor Smith commented I had the opportunity to see The Book of Kells this summer while studying abroad and it is a sight one should see. After taking History of the Book as a spring course I had a new found appreciation and knowledge that I did not have previously. The ornamentation and the gilded pages make the words seem just part of a whole. Seeing all of those beautiful books on display at Trinity Colleges Library was a magnificent sight. The architecture of the building itself is exquisite, the ceiling looks like a hand carved boat turned upside down. The books call for acknowledgement and importance as their pages crave to be turned. It is the content, the meaning in the words not only the ornamentation that should be valued in these works.