Complex sentence: It is large and leather-bound in appearance, with pages of a strange purple parchment; the writing on the pages is inscribed in a silvery ink that seems to shimmer and move about the page on its own.
Split into simpler sentences: It is large and leather-bound in appearance, with pages of a strange purple parchment. The writing on the pages is inscribed in a silvery ink that seems to shimmer and move about the page on its own.