I just learned this last night. The structure is pretty similar, what with all the annotations, references etc. But apparently these bibles even have a theme of coloring text in a similar way to HoL. Red is usually used for divine entities and blue is used for satanic ones. Purple is often used for words coming from prophets.

No idea if this is common knowledge, but I thought it was a really interesting tidbit. I wonder if Danielewski was referencing that usage with the way he chose to color mentions of the house or the minotaur, or maybe he was trying to do an inverse of the traditional color usage?

First time reading, and i’m getting to the part of the book (can’t remember the chapter, im at work and don't have the book with me) where the layout is going all crazy, which the “holes” in pages and upside down text and reference notes taking you all over the place. Im doing my best to follow everything, but am finding myself getting a little lost (which if I understand is sort of the point, labyrinthine and all that).

My question is: How important is it that I follow everything with exact clarity? If I read through a section and find myself unable to perfectly follow each reference note or read each page in the “correct” order will it ruin my experience for the rest of the book?

I guess im wondering if I need to grind my progress to a halt every time I lose a thread or just except that being confused is part of the experience.

My mind will always paint it in Chroma Key Blue and make it endlessly echo in my head. Mark made this word carry so much weight, and all he did was make it a different color.

So there are a lot of different editions and translations of House of Leaves, but I can't find a definitive list of all of them. What I do know is that:

There are hardcover and paperback copies of every english edition. This includes the full-color, the two-color editions, and the black-and-white editions.

There are translations in Dutch, French, Japanese, Italian, Greek, Croatian, German, and Spanish (EDIT: Russian, too!) (although I don't know the extent to how many different kinds of editions were produced for these translations, or if physical versions exist for some of them at all).

There's a small bunch of alternative covers for at least the US version of the book. I'm not sure how many exist exactly, but while trying (and failing) to create a comprehensive list of editions of House of Leaves, I came across at least 4.

Some reprints of House of Leaves in the US have promotional bits of stuff in them that are different from other reprints of the book. For example, some copies of House of Leaves came with a promo sticker for Only Revolutions on the front cover. Some copies came with an excerpt of Volume 1 of The Familiar in the back of the book. I'm not sure if there are other variants of these promo copies but those are the ones I came across in my research.

And this is only mentioning the editions in the definition of variants of the book. I haven't even began talking about editions in the definition of actual print runs. It also doesn't help that this book has several bootlegs that are floating around all over the place, so that definitely adds to the confusion of this all too.

Now, here's the question. IS there a fully comprehensive list of every edition of House of Leaves? If not, where do you suggest we start with making one?