The full thing is here: https://inivekin.github.io/abosa/

About 1.5-2 hours of reading if you like that kind of thing - or just skim the pics if you like.

I read Beowulf and thought I could do better. I guess I probably didn’t but I gave it a shot and I’m pretty proud of a few things in there. I’d like to record it in a sing-songy way someday…

  • MarcomachtKuchen@feddit.orgEnglish
    5·
    11 days ago

    Holy shit that’s some incredible work. I’ll also join the other guy in giving your work the proper treatment when I’m not on mobile.

    • inivekin@aussie.zoneOPEnglish
      3·
      11 days ago

      Thanks! Sounds like it’s just your personal preference but feel free to let me know if there is something I’ve done specifically that makes mobile viewing undesirable.

      I did try to make it accessible on various screensizes with short segments but I’m sure I could probably make it more approachable. I expect more people might view it as a video but I’ve struggled to get my performance as intended - maybe I’ll try that again soon.

      • MarcomachtKuchen@feddit.orgEnglish
        2·
        11 days ago

        On my iOS Device with Firefox the “tabp to latinize” function either does not work or I’m to stupid to understand where to tab. Taping the text did not work for me

        • inivekin@aussie.zoneOPEnglish
          1·
          11 days ago

          Hm, I don’t have a iOS device to try it on, but you should be able to tap the text itself. I’ll try investigate further somehow.

          Otherwise you should be able to use Firefox reader mode with the webpage as well. And if all else fails, I’ve uploaded a pdf version to the git repo here, I’ll try make it easier to get to as well.

          Thanks for taking an interest and letting me know, I might change how I do that font stuff for less friction.

    • inivekin@aussie.zoneOPEnglish
      11·
      11 days ago

      Thankyou! I tried to make it the kind of thing that’s consumable in one afternoon, but I did also try to chunk it up and make it navigable for shorter reading sessions too.

      If you think I could make it more approachable somehow, feel free to let me know. I have mind of an audio version but want it in a certain way that I’m not yet skilled enough to achieve.

      • acockworkorange@mander.xyzEnglish
        2·
        11 days ago

        My exclamation was less of “this is huge” and more of “wow, this took serious dedication!” It’s clearly a labor of love, and it shows.

  • fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk
    English
    3·
    11 days ago

    I’m severely impressed with what you’ve done here, both artistically and poetically. What an epic project!

    Did you invent the alien script as well? It appears to be a letter-by-letter substitution of the English text, so technically quite learnable :)

    I’ve only read a few sections into it, but I’ve enjoyed what I’ve seen, so I’m going to come back and give it a little time when I have some. I’d love a pdf/epub etc for an e-reader (or a paper copy!), though it might be hard to get the image/text flow right - and I imagine quite some effort to rearrange the html document into a page-turning format.

    • inivekin@aussie.zoneOPEnglish
      2·
      11 days ago

      The font is simply Elian script. Luckily this nice person made it a font so I didn’t have to do so.

      I do have a pdf and epub version which I made a generator for from the html. My EPUB gen is a bit sus and I haven’t got it working right yet but I’ve pushed the pdf to the main git repo here. Good idea, will try improve them and I should add a link to them from the page itself.