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For those wondering what the "marbled page" looks like: https://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/mt/assets/food/assets_c/2011/06/Page%20from%20the%20first%20edition,%

• robin_reala 6y ago
  The one I chose for this edition was this scan: https://archive.org/details/lifeopinionsoftr02stern/page/24/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/lifeopinionsoftr02stern/page/24/... Marbling was a relatively new technique at the time, and each copy had a different version as they were done by hand rather than printed. It’s there as a reference point for the preceding page, quoted: You will no more be able to penetrate the moral of the next marbled page (motly emblem of my work!) than the world with all its sagacity has been able to unravel the many opinions, transactions, and truths which still lie mystically hid under the dark veil of the black one. It would be nice to write an algorithm to randomly generate them. Ebooks are extremely limited in the randomness aspect, but potentially I might be able to hack the SE toolkit to supply a seed every time the book is built.