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• Stephen commented on Lovebible.pl
  A perl of great price......
• Trottelreiner commented on Lovebible.pl
  Err, if you need any help with the German or the script, feel free to ask. Though I might need some practice, since Fraktur is very seldom used today, usually it's in a similar vein to the Blackletter fonts, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackletter e.g. to give a certain "traditional" feel. And quite a lot of the books from before the 20th century are printed in it, so if you have a little bibliophile streak, you are likely to be confronted with it. Then, there are some guys who like it for various reasons, e.g. aethetics, it seems one Hermann Hesse wanted his books...
• Trottelreiner commented on Lovebible.pl
  As for the Necronomicon, actually it seems that according to http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/History_of_the_Necronomicon there was a Blackletter version in the 15th century in Germany, which might have been in Schwabacher or some other forerunner of Fraktur, since Fraktur proper is said to stem from the early 16th century. ;) Note this was the Latin version by Olaus Wormius, and historically, Latin texts were mostly set in Antiqua even in Germany. And as already mentioned, it was likely no Fraktur, but some other Blackletter font. But I guess a version of the Necronomicon with a similar Blackletter font to the ones used in...
• patrik.hjorth commented on Lovebible.pl
  Seriously, this needs to be made complete. The uses and applications are endless!...
• Bellinghman commented on Lovebible.pl
  I think you mean 'abuses and applications'....