Just blogged my thoughts after finishing my watch on catchup of the SHARP 2023 book history conference. Huge thanks to @sharporg and the conference organisers for allowing catchup over such an extended period. https://vivsacademicblog.wordpress.com/2023/08/21/watching-the-sharp-2023-conference-on-catchup/ #BookHistory #SHARP23 #SHARP #SHARP2023 #conference #streaming #accessibility

Here's something I wrote a while back about my own experience with ebooks, since developing huge reading problems when my progressive neurological disease started in the mid 1990s. They are life changing for me. https://vivsacademicblog.wordpress.com/2017/10/19/ebooks-including-kindle-as-a-way-of-overcoming-disability-reading-problems/ #books #reading #ebooks #disability #SHARP23 #bookstodon #kindle #neuro

Just enjoyed another pair of #SHARP23 #bookHistory #conference recordings. Including a keynote on #ebooks versus print books. This touched on many issues important to me, as reader - and book historian - who now reads with huge difficulty, and relies on ebooks for gigantic fonts for #disability reasons. There is so much snobbishness against ebooks, an incredibly ableist perspective. Many survey responses discussed in this keynote echoed these views, powerfully and clearly. #reading #books #SHARP

Just briefly awake right now #neuro but finally making a start watching a panel or two (recording) from the #SHARP23 #bookHistory academic #conference. I have until the end of August to watch what I want to. So need to keep nibbling at it. First up panels about #Bookstagram and also the new Eighteenth-Century Libraries Online digital project. #DigitalHistory #DigitalHumanities #DH #libraries #libraryHistory

I bought a new mono #laser #printer 2.5 years ago. It has just today started complaining of low #toner. On its starter cartridge we have been using all that time. Wow. I have spare toner cartridges, so we're good to change when need to. But I reckon it can print out some more stuff first. I've used it regularly ever since then to print #accordion music and other stuff. Tonight I was printing out the #SHARP23 #bookHistory #conference programme, ready for finalising recordings I'm aiming to watch.

Thank you to the organizers, presenters, keynote speakers, chairs, and exhibitors who made #SHARP23 possible! We couldn't have done it without you! 🤓

It's bittersweet to announce that our final panels are starting soon at #SHARP23. Join us for "Abilities through Print" with Julia S. Carlson and Agata Mrva-Montoya and "Digitizing Old and New" with Brenda Luies and Nicole Merkel-Hilf!

Join us for our penultimate time slot on "Format and Authority in Eighteenth-century English Publishing" with Megan E. Fox and Elizabeth Bobo, and "The Bookshop as Interface" with Eben J. Muse and Matthew Chambers at #SHARP23!

Next: "Identity and Resistance" with Elisa Sotgiu and Tamara Bhalla; "Insights on Readers" with Jon Topham and Jonathan Rose; and "Semiotics and Structure" with Natalie McGartland and Jason Stuart. Join us at #SHARP23!

Next: "American Print Culture + French Social Causes" w. Katharine Hargrave + Elizabeth Tuttle; "Aproximaciones digitales a la historia del libro en Latinoamérica II" w. Clayton McCarl + Ernesto Priani Saisó; or "Book Materialities" w. Daniel Mellis + Élika Ortega Guzmán!#SHARP23

Join us for "Contemporary Digital Trends" with Meghan Constantinou and Simone Murray up next at #SHARP23!

Thanks to all those who attended my #sharp23 presentation on Gray Barker, UFO publications, and office copying technology. Some great questions from those in attendance -- if you missed it, check out the recording once it's live!

Even if you aren't attending #SHARP23, all members are welcome to join the Annual General Meeting, happening in a few minutes, which will feature a presentation from @SHARPorgNews!

It's keynote time! Join us for "'They Are Books to Me' (Until they Aren't): Reader Experiences of the Realness of Electronic Books" by Laura Dietz! #SHARP23

Quick! Get over to "Memoir Matters: On Methods, Markets and Media" for a live roundtable with Cedric Essi, Danielle Fuller, Corinna Norrick-Rühl, Yaghma Kaby, Julie Rak, and DeNel Rehberg Sedo, or the panel "Wired Reading" with Anke Vogel and Emily Brooks! #SHARP23

Up early for #SHARP23 on personae in #bookhistory with @blairesquiscoll et al. Surprisingly serious and insightful for such a lighthearted approach. Watch the recording if you’re registered for the conference!

We know where we're headed next: "Paper Interventions" with Josh Iaquinto and Alia Jones at #SHARP23!

Psst. Don't forget to check out our exhibitors! They're waiting for you! 🤓

@sharporg Thank goodness ( and #SHARP23 ) for session recordings. Victorian session was excellent.

Join us at #SHARP23 for "Digital Platforms and New Opportunities in Book History" with Swara Shukla and Caitlin Parka, and "Young Readers' Voices" with Brigid Magner, Jelena Lakuš, Ivana Martinović, and Boris Badurina, up next!

Up next at #SHARP23: "Consequences of Taxonomies" with Alan Rauch and Rachel Noorda; "Print and Publics in 18th Century South Asia" with Joshua Ehrlich and James Mulholland; and "Victorian Publishing and Printing" with Maria H. Barrera-Agarwal and Dallas Liddle!