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title: A Wonderful writeup of The Book of Sarth on The Verge
description: A Wonderful writeup of The Book of Sarth on The Verge, a post by Sarth Calhoun first published at this address on sarth.net on January 3, 2013, about Bryan Bishop’s review of The Book of Sarth in The Verge, with its 2015 repost.
url: https://www.sarth.net/a-wonderful-writeup-of-the-book-of-sarth-on-the-verge/
published: 2013-01-03
facet: dream
author: Sarth Calhoun
---
Jan 3, 2013 · Dream

# A Wonderful writeup of The Book of Sarth on The Verge

Bryan Bishop at [The Verge](https://www.theverge.com/2013/1/3/3828314/the-book-of-sarth-ipad-app-graphic-novel-concept-album) did a wonderful write up of The Book of Sarth. I really appreciate the detail and attention he gave the book while writing about it.

> “The art is beautiful unto itself, each page filled with inset images that shift, fade, or change. Things really come alive in what’s called the “director’s view”: tap an image and the artwork fills the screen, putting the reader in the same place as the characters, witnessing the effects of the sonic artifact firsthand.”
> 
> Bryan Bishop, [The Verge](https://www.theverge.com/2013/1/3/3828314/the-book-of-sarth-ipad-app-graphic-novel-concept-album), January 3, 2013

[http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/3/3828314/the-book-of-sarth-ipad-app-graphic-novel-concept-album#add-comment](https://www.theverge.com/2013/1/3/3828314/the-book-of-sarth-ipad-app-graphic-novel-concept-album)

The post also carried The Verge’s lead image, captioned “Book of Sarth Review on The Verge”. The image was not recovered.

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## The 2015 version

When the site moved to Squarespace in 2015, the post was reposted under Rumors at /rumors/2015/2/10/a-wonderful-write-up-of-the-book-of-sarth-on-the-verge, keeping the January 3, 2013 date, as “The Book of Sarth Review on The Verge”:

Bryan Bishop at [The Verge](https://www.theverge.com/2013/1/3/3828314/the-book-of-sarth-ipad-app-graphic-novel-concept-album) did a fantastic write up of The Book of Sarth. I really appreciate his thoughtful insights and attention to detail - he did a great job of highlighting many of the things that I think make the book special.

> “The art is beautiful unto itself, each page filled with inset images that shift, fade, or change. Things really come alive in what’s called the “director’s view”: tap an image and the artwork fills the screen, putting the reader in the same place as the characters, witnessing the effects of the sonic artifact firsthand.”
> 
> Bryan Bishop, [The Verge](https://www.theverge.com/2013/1/3/3828314/the-book-of-sarth-ipad-app-graphic-novel-concept-album), January 3, 2013

[Read the full review.](https://www.theverge.com/2013/1/3/3828314/the-book-of-sarth-ipad-app-graphic-novel-concept-album)

Posted on sarth.net at this address on January 3, 2013, and reproduced here as written, from the [Internet Archive’s copy](https://web.archive.org/web/20140306173226/http://www.sarth.net/a-wonderful-writeup-of-the-book-of-sarth-on-the-verge/) of March 6, 2014. The 2015 version is from the [copy of September 27, 2017](https://web.archive.org/web/20170927213250/http://www.sarth.net/rumors/2015/2/10/a-wonderful-write-up-of-the-book-of-sarth-on-the-verge). The quotation is Bryan Bishop’s, from The Verge.