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Vivienne DunstanJust 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 #bookHistory
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! π€
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!