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theadamabrams
Yeah, that's definitely the Jedi archives.
TheGingerGod
"if a planet is not in our records it does not exist!"
BooksBooksBooksBooksBooks
Jigxer
Lupine1982
Been there, done that.
toastedspikes
The Brian Ború Harp, an Irish wirestrung harp or "cláirseach" is there, the Irish national symbol on all our coins and tax forms.
ispentwaytoolongthinkingaboutthis
This library was built 170 years before my country was founded.
morgan0073
They should scan all those books onto the internet
AnHonestLiar
They're working on it https://www.tcd.ie/library/dris/digital.php
Yosser
The museum building beside it is stunning as well, there's a guided tour but you can just walk in and look around.
CorgiButtSploot
But its rather small
ILikedTheirOldStuffBetter
Didn't J.R.R. Tolkein go to Trinity college?
ayjayn
He went to Exeter College, Which is an Oxford university College
FrozenFoodGuy
@Thelibrarianchick good morning!
Thelibrarianchick
Good morning!
ericsolesen12
I was there last August. It is a very beautiful sight.
MetalSkeletal
*Hogwarts
aldashin
NIce
AllAboutThatD
420!
DaggettOFlannigan
420 blze it lolol
massaka123
I know what the first book was....growing potatoes!!! I see myself out now...
CMJ1349
That would have been confiscated by the English. Hence the famine.
cbale2000
I feel like the height of the shelves makes it somewhat impractical.
Bad214
I’ve seen other pics of these gorgeous libraries & wondered if decades from now they’ll be,like, Starbucks or future internet cafes.
whitebbwolf
it looks smaller in person tbh
Bonemamma
I wish my really old uni had a pretty library... I really dont know why we dont..
TheWonderfulWizardofBaas
Nice
ch604
Nice
TerriMessy
Is this the library in Dr Who? Looks familiar.
toastedspikes
I think so yes.
breakdancingrobots
420 huh? Nice.
Fardays
But the ceiling is 19th century
MrBoopleSnootFluffkins
The ceiling was re-built after it was bombed in the war.
Fardays
...no it wasn't...
MrBoopleSnootFluffkins
No it was, seriously, check wikipedia.
Fardays
The ceiling was raised in the 19th century by Deane and Woodward. Trinity wasn't bombed and Dublin only due to German navigation errors
MrBoopleSnootFluffkins
No, sorry, you are very much mistaken, you shouldn't be on here sprouting fake news, it's damaging for the community.
SpinerockNolan
Is this the Jedi archives?
Dunlaw
Beat me to it
LazerusK
Of course not, jedi archives are blue
eveniftheydosayjehovah
http://archiseek.com/2002/jedi-archives-clones-long-room-trinity-attacks/ There is some controvercy about it.
danizduhman
“Most recent episode of the Star Wars series” dang this is old
Sauroctonus
So a fantasy sci-fi uses their building as inspiration for a building design and they want to take legal action?
Wh1skers
It isn’t an inspiration for a design though, it’s a blatant copy of almost every architectural detail.
ChipWallace
Trinity is old enough that the design would be in public domain. Plus it's not like LFL actually built a real building either.
FuckTheFuckingFuckers
I can smell it.
CorgiButtSploot
Actually it didn't have a particular smell when I was there
FuckTheFuckingFuckers
GiGiGoodtimes
Really? That's too bad. The whole library smelled like sweet resin and 150 years of pipe tobacco
Housemaster
What do books smell like in comparison? Asking since I have no sense of smell.
CongratsYouAreHereNow
earthy, like a forest. have you never had a sense of smell? can you taste?
OhNoPotato
The lignin in paper degrades over time to vanillin, giving old books a faint smell of vanilla.
protools1983
20 year Pappy Van Winkle, I kid you not.
HeadJamistan
Much of the smell comes from skin oils of everyone who has handled the books and the natural rotting of the paper.
smallfrie32
Like scented paper? I’m not really sure how to describe it because the smell also brings up loads of feelings and memories of great stories
Msdee83
It probably smells «old» in this library too.. makes me a bit nostalgic..
AcidZebra
in comparison to what? Other smells which you wouldn't know about?
Housemaster
It's just interesting to hear about similarities in different scents.
PunchInTheDicker
This is actually a really interesting question. I’ve been trying to think of how I could possibly explain it and am stumped.
PunchInTheDicker
It’s as much about the scent as it is the atmosphere, memories and feelings being there all invokes
Housemaster
So would this mean that books have a fairly unique scent?
PunchInTheDicker
Yes. Definitely. It’s almost earthy - musky. Warm and inviting.
Smacketywack
Actually books from various eras smell different over time, owing to changes in composition and book making technology.
Smacketywack
Books that are roughly pre 1750 have a certain smell in the pages themselves and the leather covers. Then up to about 1840 they have..
Smacketywack
..foxing on the pages and smell kind of pungent. Then paper stock got cheaper and it tends to brown, except certain ones that use this..
Smacketywack
..higher quality semi gloss finish stock that was developed around the 1860s. Then cheaper pulp was developed in the late 19th/early 20th..
Schmapplesauce
In late summer, when you go past a potato field, the plants are still green but have already bloomed and are in the process of dying. 1/?
Schmapplesauce
There's a subtle smell in the air then, one that's slightly sweet and earthy but which has this undertone of rot, hardly noticeable. 2/?
Schmapplesauce
A collection of old books reminds me of that smell, and how subtle and mixed it is. The earthy, dusty smell with a hint of organic decay.3/4
Schmapplesauce
The impressiveness of seeing tons of old books on an imaginative mind makes the unique smell which accompanies it a very associative one.4/4