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The Best Fake Books—Made Real At the Grolier Club, in midtown, a collection of imaginary volumes—the play within “Hamlet,” Hemingway’s lost first novel—are bound, scuffed, and shelved.

Also, we had the terrific Reid Byers come up and talk to us yesterday about his imaginary books as a form of reading what you can't actually read. Maine is really a very good place for to be doing bookish things www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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Call for Applications: SHARP NEWS Editor in Chief (2026-2032). Details of the call for Applications, which has a deadline of November 28, 2025. The role begins January 1, 2025. See the link for full call details.

Call for Applications: SHARP NEWS Editor in Chief (2026-2032). Details of the call for Applications, which has a deadline of November 28, 2025. The role begins January 1, 2025. See the link for full call details.

Call for Applications: SHARP NEWS Editor in Chief (2026-2032). Details of the call for Applications, which has a deadline of November 28, 2025. The role begins January 1, 2025. See the link for full call details.

🌟 Deadline to apply to be the next SHARP NEWS Editor in Chief has been extended!

👉 Apply by November 28, 2025!

Details here:

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Reminder!

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Eight pages bound in furry seal skin may be Norway's oldest book The little book is so rare that the National Library of Norway is bringing in experts from around the world to learn more.

What a great find! As a paleographer, I can't help but observe that if this were French I would have dated the not-yet-Gothic script to the mid-12th century. In Norway, the transition from Romanesque to Gothic happens later, hence the tentative 13th-c. date. www.sciencenorway.no/cultural-his...

This is a panel on “Book History with Internet Data”, with 8 panelists from different IMLS/iSchools, funded by SHARP. Over the past two decades, a variety of internet-based datasets have emerged related to books, reading habits, and reader communities—ranging from crowd-sourced genre tags and online reviews to platforms like BookTok. These datasets are increasingly valuable for research in reading and readership, often complementing traditional book history approaches. However, they also raise new questions and challenges. To explore these opportunities and foster interdisciplinary collaboration, this panel will bring together eight panelists from diverse fields to discuss questions, such as: How can we critically understand the relationship between Internet-based “book” data and traditional research materials? What are the methodological challenges and potential pitfalls of using digital data in book history research? How can interdisciplinary approaches enrich the analysis of Internet book and reader datasets? Here are our amazing panelists: - Micah Bateman, Assistant Professor, School of Library and Information Science, The University of Iowa - Melanie Walsh, Assistant Professor, an Assistant Professor in the Information School and an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the English Department, University of Washington - Wenyi Shang, Assistant Professor, School of Information Science & Learning Technologies, University of Missouri - Cici Ling, Assistant Professor, Department of Informatics, Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, Indiana University Bloomington - Kai Li, Assistant Professor, School of Information Sciences, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville - Andrew Zalot, Assistant Professor, College of Education, East Carolina University - Alex Wingate, PhD Candidate, Department of Information and Library Science, Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, Indiana University Bloomington

Hi DH friends, join us on Nov 10, 10-11 am CT, for “New Book History Research with Internet Data”, a hybrid panel sponsored by SHAR, to explore challenges and opportunities of using Internet data and digital methods for book history research. More info in the poster attached and comments :)

A top down view of my desk, with a brown leather desk pad on top of which is an open notebook with my bibliographical description, a notepad with notes. And an unbound 19th century French book.

Cataloging a book in signatures, mostly unopened, untrimmed, and unbound. As one does. 📜 #bookhistory #booksky #libsky #rarebooks

The final conference reports from SHARP 2025 in Rochester are up!

Hear from:

Malcolm Noble sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20...

AND

Mykhailo Tupytsia
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#SHARP2025 #BookHistory #Libraries #Bibliography

African #bookhistory in the archives

📣 SHARP News needs a new Editor in Chief. Could it be you?

Applications due November 14 2025.

Details: sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20...

#BookHistory #Editor

@sharpnews.bsky.social is looking for a new Editor-in-Chief!!! Applications are due on November 14th. Get in touch if you have any questions!

Call for Papers 18th International Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Scottish Language, Literature, and Culture (ICMRSLLC) University of Bristol, 1-4 July 2026 We are delighted to invite papers for the 18th International Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Scottish Language, Literature, and Culture (ICMRSLLC), first established in 1975. We welcome proposals for papers that discuss any aspects of medieval and renaissance Scottish language, literature, and culture, and papers that reflect on these fields from different time periods, languages, and places. Keynote speakers: Roderick Lyall (Emeritus Professor of Literatures in English, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) Anna Groundwater (Principal Curator, National Museums Scotland) Steven Reid (Professor of Early Modern Scottish History and Culture, University of Glasgow) You may submit either an individual paper proposal (in which case the organisers will compile proposals into panels); or a complete panel of 3 papers at 20 minutes each. The conference also welcomes alternative panel formats (e.g. roundtables, flash panels, work in progress sessions), but these will need to managed by the proposer and proposed in full, with details of all participants. Individual papers: 20 minutes Panel sessions (typically featuring 3 papers with time for questions, or in alternative formats): 90 minutes.

CFP: 18th International Conference on Medieval & Renaissance Scottish Language, Literature, & Culture
1–4 July, @bristoluni.bsky.social

Deadline: 14 Nov 2025. See link for details 👇
icmrsllc2026.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/call-for-pap...

This looks v interesting 👀 on #Reading and #Wellbeing ☀️@edinburgh-uni.bsky.social @literacy-trust.bsky.social @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social research project. With @profsarahmcg.bsky.social and David Robinson ⬇️⬇️

Facsimile – Penn Press An unprecedented cultural history of reproductions of medieval manuscriptsFacsimiles are, or claim to be, exact copies of objects, and medieval manuscripts h...

Published today! Facsimile: Making, Likeness, and Medieval Manuscripts, by Siân Echard.

Siân is not on here to promote it, but I will! #medievalsky #manuscripts #bookhistory

www.pennpress.org/978151282705...

Another #BookHistory #PeriodicalStudies CFP: this time for #RSVP2026!

🗓️ Applications Due November 1

Printing Indigenous Community - The Filson Historical Society Print has long been a tool of both colonial control and Indigenous resistance. Join us at the Filson as we bring together artists and scholars to explore the power of print in Native American communit...

Pretty stoked about this collaboration with my colleague Megan! filsonhistorical.org/event/printi...

And thanks to @filsonhistorical.bsky.social for supporting!

#NAIS #bookhistory #letterpress #Indigenous #NativeAmerica #printmaking

Poster reads: March 12–14, 2026; Queer Bibliography in the South: Space, Place, Community; University of Georgia, Athens, GA.

Your challenge for this weekend is to put in an abstract for Queer Bibliography 2026. It's what all the cool kids are doing.

The theme is Space, Place, Community (widely understood, certainly not limited to the South). CFP: shorturl.at/XAVJ0; Submit: forms.gle/XD7FgrrStp3j...

Athens GA and online

Trans Studies as Book Historical Method J. D. Sargan considers generative modes of reading through the premodern archive to seek out trans lives beyond the ephemeral glimpses that have gone unnoticed in the historical record.

I'm giving several talks about the books in the next couple of months, if you want to hear more (before you buy?). The first, linked below, is online via. UPenn @sims-mss.bsky.social on October 17th at 12 midday EDT.

Trans Histories of the Medieval Book - Arc Humanities Press Archival collections are political spaces: the decisions that govern whose histories are preserved, when, and by whom are not neutral. They reflect the commu...

It's true: I wrote a book. And what's more, the book is done and soon you'll be able to own a copy. And what's more more, if you want a hard copy you can order one for 50% off now, with the code SAR50. And if you want it digitally, it'll be open access!

www.arc-humanities.org/978180270163...

📰 Happy Friday! Don't have plans for the weekend? Why not spend some time checking out our new look?!

That's right - the SHARP News website has gone through some exciting changes.

👉 sharpweb.org/sharpnews/

Last day to apply!

#BookHistory #Bibliography

*the novel and the _____* available now from mighty @hopkinspress.bsky.social use discount code HTNAB25 #bookhistory #skystorians #18c #vastearlyamerica #c18 #c19

Dear #earlymodern, #bookhistory, #rarebooks, and #skystorians people: I’m travelling to Lisbon in a few days!

What do you recommend? Libraries, historic spots, bookshops, exhibitions? 📜

#bookhistory

Call for Applications: SHARP News Bibliographers

As @bibliowingate.bsky.social's term comes to an end, we're looking to shake things up & establish a bibliography team of 2+ people.

Applications due October 1 2025.

The full call for applications and how to apply:
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Call for Applicants: SHARP News Bibliographers. The text details the call for applications for the new SHARP News Bibliographer. Please see the link in the post above to view the call, in detail, on our website.

Call for Applicants: SHARP News Bibliographers. The text details the call for applications for the new SHARP News Bibliographer. Please see the link in the post above to view the call, in detail, on our website.

Call for Applicants: SHARP News Bibliographers. The text details the call for applications for the new SHARP News Bibliographer. Please see the link in the post above to view the call, in detail, on our website.

⚠️⌛ Deadline fast approaching!

Don't forget to apply to be the next SHARP News Bibliographer!

👉 DEADLINE: October 01 2025. 👈

Full posting details: sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20...

Last call (for now!) before I set a schedule! If you'd like to join a monthly (or twice-monthly?) meet up of independent scholars & non-faculty researchers, please fill out this when2meet! www.when2meet.com?32480075-LPIAv
#humanities #bookhistory #medievalsky #dh

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The Aldine edition of Lucian of Samosata (1503), annotated by the printer Robert Estienne (1503-1559) and his son, Henri Estienne (1528-1598) 

✨What Do We Know About How Printers and Bookworkers Learned Greek in the Sixteenth Century ?

Han Lamers and I are delighted to host Martine Furno (IHRIM / ENS de Lyon) at the second online seminar of the Early Modern Hellenism Colloquia

📆Online on 25 September at 15.00 CET (via zoom)

#BookHistory