Book of Kells free for Ipad today

jaykay74

The Book of Kells app was released at the end of last year. I know it was on sale for 12 euro but is free today. I'm downloading it currently. About 700mb in size.

http://www.worldirish.com/story/27886-get-the-book-of-kells-ipad-app-free-for-st-patricks-day

Launched in November 2012, the iPad app quickly became the number one app in the app store.

You can see all 680 pages of the Book of Kells available in high resolution for the first time. One of the most famous illustrated manuscripts and the most elaborate manuscript of its kind to survive from the early Middle Ages, today, it is on display in the Library of Trinity College Dublin.

Features:

Following on from the international award-winning DVD-ROM, this app showcases the amazing decorative skills of the scribes and the rich and varied colours used in the drawings.
Explore the finest details of 21 of the 9th century manuscript’s most decorated pages at up to six times their original size.
Learn about the history of the book including where, when and how it was made
Understand the meaning behind decorative symbols used throughout the manuscript
Browse through over 600 examples of animals, initial letters and other decorative themes

Reesy

The download site was very slow just now, but it worked in the end. Thanks OP.

hootietootie

Thanks op, downloaded for the kid-also found "Ireland in 100 objects" great app for school going children-my 8 year old has been on it the last hour or so, hopefully help out with history projects in the future

emo72

no android version?

BluesBerry

Downloading now - thanks OP

Newcastlewest

BluesBerry wrote: »

Downloading now - thanks OP

Lads is there android version of this app . Help pls

jaykay74

emo72 wrote: »

no android version?

Newcastlewest wrote: »

Lads is there android version of this app . Help pls

http://www.bookofkells.com/faqs

Is there a version available for Android or other tablets?
At present there are no other versions of the app available. The current version of the app works on any iPad or iPad mini running iOS 5.1 or later.

Cheshire Cat

Thanks OP. Had this on my 'to buy when I feel rich' list. Delighted to get it free!

paddydriver

Thanks OP, downloaded fine earlier. 150Mb UPC works well;)

The_Conductor

emo72 wrote: »

no android version?

There is indeed a Non-Apple version available free of charge to anyone whose interested. Trinity have only put up high def pictures of the indvidual pages- so they're not in app form- but perfect for any web browser.

Link here: http://digitalcollections.tcd.ie/home/index.php?DRIS_ID=MS58_003v

S.

faolteam

but there is a price tag of 11.99 to buy

jc77

faolteam wrote: »

but there is a price tag of 11.99 to buy

Same here

Moon54

The deal is over by the looks of it.

Thanks to the OP though, I picked this up earlier.

jc77

Went for this app before midnight (GMT)
-had option to pay €11.99
-free?
-not today it seems

ads20101

I downloaded @ 11pm last night and it was still free.

Must have changed back shortly after

Kenny Logins

Read the link, it was free for St. Patrick's day only.

jaykay74

It should now be set to expired. No idea how to do that...

ads20101

Kenny Logins wrote: »

Read the link, it was free for St. Patrick's day only.

I think that we can all agree on that, however some of the posters are stating that it stopped being free somewhere between 11pm and 12am last night i.e. still St Patricks Day.

Kenny Logins

ads20101 wrote: »

I think that we can all agree on that, however some of the posters are stating that it stopped being free somewhere between 11pm and 12am last night i.e. still St Patricks Day.

My apologies. I was reading this morning and didn't spot the post times.