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An open-access publication of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (@sharpweb.org).

Read Bookish Feature Articles, Book Reviews, Pedagogical Materials, and Bibliographies here: https://sharpweb.org/sharpnews
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SHARP News @sharpnews.bsky.social · 29d
Announcing: The SHARP News Bibliography Team

We are delighted to welcome Julie Boechat Machado and Shu Wan as our incoming collaborative team of Bibliographers.

Thank you to our outgoing Bibliographer @bibliowingate.bsky.social for everything.

#BookHistory #Bibliography @sharpweb.org
An announcement for the new SHARP News Bibliography Team. The text is in black on a white background with the SHARP News logo at the bottom of the photo. The text reads: The SHARP News team is delighted to welcome Julie Boechat Machado and Shu Wan as our incoming collaborative team of Bibliographers. They will be formally taking over Bibliographies starting in January 2026. Julia Boechat Machado is a PhD Candidate at Central European University in Vienna, researching Tamizdat publishers and book history in Soviet Russia. Shu Wan is currently matriculated as a doctoral student in history at the University at Buffalo. An announcement for the new SHARP News Bibliography Team. The text is in black on a white background with the SHARP News logo at the bottom of the photo. The text reads: We want to express our endless gratitude to outgoing Bibliographer Alex Wingate, who brought so much innovation and collaborative spirit to SHARP News Bibliographies over the past 3 years. Thank you!
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SHARPists ... what do ya got!?

#BookHistory #Archives #Research #RareBooks #Libraries #SpecialCollections
appuhn.bsky.social Karl Appuhn @appuhn.bsky.social · 4d
I think we need a mega thread of everyone's craziest archive stories.
December 23, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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elisebell.bsky.social
I worked for library special collections as an undergrad, sorting, labelling, and shelving (music) records. One day I opened a box, got a whiff, and knew there was something dead (old dead, not fresh dead) in there. This was above my pay grade so I called my boss, and it turned out to be a bat 🦇
appuhn.bsky.social Karl Appuhn @appuhn.bsky.social · 4d
I think we need a mega thread of everyone's craziest archive stories.
December 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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johannamath.bsky.social
When I was a postdoc at Dartmouth, a librarian told us that he could arrange special collections visits for any class. "Calculus?" This was apparently a new question.

He rocked it. Einstein's work (w/ Kemeny's corrections) back to old yearbooks back to a 1482 Euclid. Thank you, Jay!

#MathSky
appuhn.bsky.social Karl Appuhn @appuhn.bsky.social · 4d
I think we need a mega thread of everyone's craziest archive stories.
December 22, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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drhardesty.bsky.social
At Harvard’s Houghton Library, I found a letter with salt crusted onto it. When I read the letter, I realized it was the guy’s dried tears because the letter was about the death of his young daughter
appuhn.bsky.social Karl Appuhn @appuhn.bsky.social · 4d
I think we need a mega thread of everyone's craziest archive stories.
December 22, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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brianbhalley.bsky.social
If I wanted to try to write about Boston publishing history (more recent, like last 50 years or so, not 19th c) in some kind of serial way, what is best platform? Substack seems lowkey evil. Happy to get opinions on this. Thanks! #publishing #bookhistory #Boston #books
December 22, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Do you enjoy my periodic rantings on Isaac Newton's alchemical citations? If so, take a look at my shiny new article on our improved #TEI encoding system of Newton's citations & what we can learn from some preliminary analyses of the data!
#BookHistory #histsci (tldr in 🧵)
doi.org/10.14434/tc....
A Bibliographical Framework for Citation Analysis of Isaac Newton’s Alchemical Manuscripts: Alexandra E. Wingate | Textual Cultures
doi.org
December 22, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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FLIPPING OUTSTANDING WORK, of interest to 📜 #bookhistory #booksky #libsky #rarebooks and #histSTM
bibliowingate.bsky.social Alex Wingate @bibliowingate.bsky.social · 4d
Do you enjoy my periodic rantings on Isaac Newton's alchemical citations? If so, take a look at my shiny new article on our improved #TEI encoding system of Newton's citations & what we can learn from some preliminary analyses of the data!
#BookHistory #histsci (tldr in 🧵)
doi.org/10.14434/tc....
A Bibliographical Framework for Citation Analysis of Isaac Newton’s Alchemical Manuscripts: Alexandra E. Wingate | Textual Cultures
doi.org
December 22, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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Would you consider your passport a book? Not sure about it?

Read Inge Orlowski's FEATURES article, "Passports as Books and Books as Passports" on SHARP News to get you thinking!

Read it here: sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20...

#Travel #BookHistory #WhatIsABook #Materiality #Mobility
a person is holding a passport with a stamp that says passport
Alt: A hand is holding a passport open to a spread with many stamps. In the background, photos of international landmarks and scenery change rapidly.
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December 17, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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Three new SHARP grant/fellowship reports, live now on SHARP News!

👉 25th Anniversary Fellowship Reports by...
Hyei Jin Kim: sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20...
Gloria Morales Osorio:
sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20...

👉 SHARP Grant Report 2024 by...
Farhana Shaikh: sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20...

#SHARP
December 17, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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#BookHistory #MediaHistory 🔥
mkirschenbaum.bsky.social Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 16d
It finally happened. One of our fabulous @umdbooklab.bsky.social interns, @isabelleberube.bsky.social, printed (with movable type!) the entire first page of Benjamin’s WORK OF ART IN THE AGE OF MECHANICAL REPRODUCTION. That’s all handset type. They have ambitions to do more. 🤯
Letterpress printed pages with the Penguin edition of Benjamin’s book. The forme of handset type.
December 11, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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saracharles.bsky.social
Booking is now open for Making Medieval Manuscripts! A practice-based course where we make ink, cut quills, illuminate, make pigments and bookbind, using #medieval techniques and materials. We also explore early medieval art. No experience necessary! #bookhistory ies.sas.ac.uk/study-traini...
Introduction to Making Medieval Manuscripts (Practice Based)
This course introduces students to the complicated and messy processes of production through which pre-modern manuscripts were created
ies.sas.ac.uk
December 3, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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V for Vendetta! Looks like this example of #scanninghands is calling for a revolution...
A hand that was scanned while digitizing an old book in the BSB München. The little finger is used to form a V. Source: https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/de/view/bsb10980705?q=Montag&page=7
October 20, 2025 at 6:18 AM
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dbellingradt.bsky.social
Say hi. This is an example of how human labor will be remembered when all books are digitized and we all work with digital copies only. And maybe, hand on heart, this hand was intentionally raised to greet us from the past. #skystorians #bookhistory #digitalhumanities
A hand soaked with sweat, in a plastic glove, caught in the act while doing a digital scan of a broadside for a Munich based library. Source: https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/de/view/bsb10811151?page=6,7
March 21, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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Don't miss! 🌿 Pocket Books and Floating Libraries: Books as Collecting Tools in Instructions to Travelers. Anna Svensson will discuss how books haven’t just described the natural world, they’ve also helped collect it. Wed. 10 Dec, 15:00–16:00 CET Zoom link, email: instructingnaturalhistory@uu.se
Book used as a collecting tool. Image is author's own.
December 8, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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#BookHistory
annalujz.bsky.social Anna-Lujz Gilbert @annalujz.bsky.social · 29d
*small embarrassed voice*
A little plug for my article on Devon book sales c. 1700, which has gone online open access. tl;dr book auctions weren't just a London/Oxbridge thing: a flourishing second-hand book market centred on Exeter included auctions from the 1680s.
doi.org/10.1093/libr...
A Provincial Market in Second-Hand Books: Book Sales in Devon, 1688–1725
Abstract. Comparatively little is known about England’s early book-auction trade outside of London and the university towns, with few catalogues surviving
doi.org
November 27, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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asls.org.uk
Typographica Scoto-Gadelica: Scottish Gaelic Typographic Visual Identity through Print & Book Culture
3 Dec @sabhalmorostaig.bsky.social & online – free

Exploring Scottish Gaelic’s contemporary visual identity & typographic heritage
#BookHistory #typography #Gaelic
www.smo.uhi.ac.uk/edwin-pickst...
Edwin Pickstone - Sabhal Mòr Ostaig
Edwin Pickstone lives and works in Glasgow. Focusing on the material nature of print Pickstone uses letterpress technology, collaborating with artists and
www.smo.uhi.ac.uk
November 27, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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bibliowingate.bsky.social Alex Wingate @bibliowingate.bsky.social · 29d
It has been a pleasure and an honor to be SHARP bibliographer the last 3 years, and I’m looking forward to seeing what @juliaboechat.bsky.social and Shu do for the next 3!
sharpnews.bsky.social SHARP News @sharpnews.bsky.social · 29d
Announcing: The SHARP News Bibliography Team

We are delighted to welcome Julie Boechat Machado and Shu Wan as our incoming collaborative team of Bibliographers.

Thank you to our outgoing Bibliographer @bibliowingate.bsky.social for everything.

#BookHistory #Bibliography @sharpweb.org
November 28, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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bibliowingate.bsky.social
It has been a pleasure and an honor to be SHARP bibliographer the last 3 years, and I’m looking forward to seeing what @juliaboechat.bsky.social and Shu do for the next 3!
sharpnews.bsky.social SHARP News @sharpnews.bsky.social · 29d
Announcing: The SHARP News Bibliography Team

We are delighted to welcome Julie Boechat Machado and Shu Wan as our incoming collaborative team of Bibliographers.

Thank you to our outgoing Bibliographer @bibliowingate.bsky.social for everything.

#BookHistory #Bibliography @sharpweb.org
An announcement for the new SHARP News Bibliography Team. The text is in black on a white background with the SHARP News logo at the bottom of the photo. The text reads: The SHARP News team is delighted to welcome Julie Boechat Machado and Shu Wan as our incoming collaborative team of Bibliographers. They will be formally taking over Bibliographies starting in January 2026. Julia Boechat Machado is a PhD Candidate at Central European University in Vienna, researching Tamizdat publishers and book history in Soviet Russia. Shu Wan is currently matriculated as a doctoral student in history at the University at Buffalo. An announcement for the new SHARP News Bibliography Team. The text is in black on a white background with the SHARP News logo at the bottom of the photo. The text reads: We want to express our endless gratitude to outgoing Bibliographer Alex Wingate, who brought so much innovation and collaborative spirit to SHARP News Bibliographies over the past 3 years. Thank you!
November 27, 2025 at 3:42 PM
sharpnews.bsky.social
Deadline to apply to be the next SHARP News Editor in Chief is fast approaching. As in, it's tomorrow, November 28!!

Application details here: sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20...

#BookHistory #Editor #Academic #OnlinePublishing
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Alt: A penguin (from the movie Madagascar) is sticking his head out of a hole in a box, tapping a sign that says "job application."
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November 27, 2025 at 3:00 PM
sharpnews.bsky.social
Announcing: The SHARP News Bibliography Team

We are delighted to welcome Julie Boechat Machado and Shu Wan as our incoming collaborative team of Bibliographers.

Thank you to our outgoing Bibliographer @bibliowingate.bsky.social for everything.

#BookHistory #Bibliography @sharpweb.org
An announcement for the new SHARP News Bibliography Team. The text is in black on a white background with the SHARP News logo at the bottom of the photo. The text reads: The SHARP News team is delighted to welcome Julie Boechat Machado and Shu Wan as our incoming collaborative team of Bibliographers. They will be formally taking over Bibliographies starting in January 2026. Julia Boechat Machado is a PhD Candidate at Central European University in Vienna, researching Tamizdat publishers and book history in Soviet Russia. Shu Wan is currently matriculated as a doctoral student in history at the University at Buffalo. An announcement for the new SHARP News Bibliography Team. The text is in black on a white background with the SHARP News logo at the bottom of the photo. The text reads: We want to express our endless gratitude to outgoing Bibliographer Alex Wingate, who brought so much innovation and collaborative spirit to SHARP News Bibliographies over the past 3 years. Thank you!
November 27, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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Scotland’s Gutenberg: William Ged & the Invention of Stereotype Printing, 1725–49

Dr William Zachs hypothesises the existence of a group of previously unknown stereotyped books, thus offering a revised history of book production in #C18th Britain
#BookHistory
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMcE...
Scotland’s Gutenberg: William Ged and the Invention of Stereotype Printing, 1725–49
YouTube video by UCLA Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies
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November 26, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Have you recently published a book history, publishing, or otherwise bookish book and want to have it reviewed?

Consider SHARP News!

Submit your book to be considered for review in SHARP News at this link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

#BookHistory #BookReview
Suggest a Book for Review in SHARP News
If there's a book you think should be reviewed in SHARP News, please provide the details below.
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November 25, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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#BookHistory
svanimpe.bsky.social Steven Van Impe @svanimpe.bsky.social · Nov 25
Another fabulous book from the recent #NewAcq: a spectacular #earlymodern Flemish panel stamped #binding! This is a monochrome embossed image, so difficult to photograph, but trust me! 📚💙 📜
A little book in brown leather with green silk ribbons. The binding has a panel stamp embossed on it. A pencil rubbing of the panel stamp, showing the design: a lady with a lion at her feet sitting in a fenced garden, a city with towers in the background.
November 25, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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Want to review a book for SHARP News?

Check out the updated list of books to review: docs.google.com/document/u/0...

#BookHistory #BookReview
SHARP News - Books Available for Review
SHARP News Books Available for Review To express interest in writing a review, please read the book review guidelines and contact coeditors Jolie Braun and Madeline Zehnder at reviews@sharpweb.or...
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November 25, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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Read Gillian Silverman's "Reading in the Flesh: Anthropodermic Bibliopegy and the Haptic Response" from the Fall 2021 issue of Book History

Available at @projectmuse.bsky.social

muse.jhu.edu/article/839033

@sharpnews.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 5:04 PM