Leah Price

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#BookHistory, #readinghistory, #victodons. Writing: NYRB/TLS/NYTBR/Basic Books. https://leahprice.org/. Making: Scarlet Letterpress [sites.rutgers.edu/ru-book-initiative]. She her hers.
book historyVictorian novel
libraryletterpress
Leah PriceDec 17, 2022
Rebecca RomneyDec 17, 2022
An #introduction for Mastodon:
I’m a rare book dealer, co-founder of the rare book firm Type Punch Matrix and co-founder of the Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize. I mostly post about #rarebooks #bookcollecting and #BookHistory topics. I also post about bookish things more generally, with current special interests in #sff #romancebooks #JaneAusten and #Sherlockian stuff.
You may also know me from Pawn Stars (as the book specialist) or The Booksellers Documentary (the one who is still excited).
Leah PriceDec 17, 2022
nushpowellDec 17, 2022
Its out!!!!! The Future World of Eighteenth-Century Studies, a special issue of ECTI inspired by the work of Felicity Nussbaum!
https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/49466
Project MUSE - The Eighteenth Century-Volume 62, Number 2, Summer 2021

Leah PriceDec 17, 2022
Shannon MatternDec 13, 2022

A colleague has asked me (on behalf of a student) for readings about the *phone book* as a historical media object. I recommended these and wonder if folks have other recs!

https://www.journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mcjournal/article/view/556

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0142639022000023934a

https://www.ftrain.com/rotary-dial

https://mediacommons.org/imr/2010/02/14/surveying-wired-landscapes-early-telephone-directories-mobile-perception

List Media: The Telephone Directory and the Arranging of Names | M/C Journal

Leah PriceDec 17, 2022
Clive ThompsonDec 15, 2022

Okay people, I've got some NEW PUNCTUATION for you

The "commash", the "colash", and the "semi-colash"

Back in the 19th century, writers used these *everywhere*. It's hard to open a book to a random page and *not* see one

Yet in the 20th century, they vanished -- practically overnight

It's up to us to BRING THEM BACK

My essay is here, for Medium subscribers: https://clivethompson.medium.com/weird-19th-century-punctuation-marks-you-should-try-using-49d2e2516e5e

If you're not a Medium subscriber, here's a "friend" link: https://clivethompson.medium.com/weird-19th-century-punctuation-marks-you-should-try-using-49d2e2516e5e?sk=0b0b750a1dc3cf296efbf036ebbd2d34

Weird 19th-Century Punctuation Marks You Should Try Using

Ever heard of the “colash”? Or the “commash”?

Medium
Leah PriceDec 17, 2022
Quinn DombrowskiDec 16, 2022
Hi new #DigitalHumanities people finding your way over here! If you're looking for DH folks, there's a list going here: https://tinyurl.com/dhmastodon. Please add yourself with the link at top, and DM me if you need anything to be updated! #TwitterMigration
DH people on Mastodon

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Google Docs
Leah PriceDec 16, 2022
Murph altDec 15, 2022

🚨 SAVE YOUR STUFF 🚨

If you post research to Twitter and have not had a chance to archive or save your posts, now is a good time to do so. I expect the recent TOS updates to disproportionately affect activists even more than we've already experienced.
Here are some tools for archiving:

Download friend lists and last 3200 tweets:
https://tweetbeaver.com

Extensions for grabbing all the media off of Twitter accounts for Firefox and Chrome:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tw-media-downloader/

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/twitter-media-downloader/cblpjenafgeohmnjknfhpdbdljfkndig?hl=en

Archive important threads here:
https://web.archive.org/save

https://archive.today

Most tweets after late 2019 are automatically saved to the Wayback Machine and can be retrieved with tools like this (requires API access): https://github.com/travisbrown/cancel-culture

Older threads will need additional attention.

If anyone is migrating to Mastodon and wants a list of your friends from Twitter to auto connect with: https://www.movetodon.org/

I also recommend using Fedifinder or Debirdify and exporting the CSV just for account verification later even if you don't plan on following people today.
Note: you can look up Mastodon friends of accounts other than your own with Debirdify.

We do have some research account backups saved from a few weeks ago but if you have posted anything important that needs to be preserved externally please grab it.

#osint #twittermigration #alerta

Leah PriceDec 16, 2022
I get why #hashtags matter. But does anyone else get a kind of #GeorgeSaunders esque #ShrillVibe from too many of them?
Leah PriceDec 16, 2022
Sarah SilvermanDec 16, 2022
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Take the quiz with proctoring in 5 minutes by connecting a camera with a microphone.

Leah PriceDec 16, 2022
Ryan CordellDec 16, 2022
Wishing today I had much more space for the press. Got an email from a guy elsewhere in IL who read the news about Skeuomorph Press (https://news.illinois.edu/view/6367/1136956733) & reached out because he's part of a "multigenerational family owned printing service" and "we are wondering if you would facilitate bringing new life to some other letterpresses, or print shop equipment." In short, their father recently passed and "One of our father’s final wishes was to donate a printing press, or other print shop equipment to a museum, or school, to show how the fine art of printing: was so impactful in our past, how it could be used to facilitate the present and inspire the minds of our youth, in the future." Assuming it's all in decent condition, the list of things they're looking to donate is mind-blowing. I may try to see if we can accept some tiny portion of it. But if you're in the midwest looking to set up or bolster a campus printing operation let me know so I can connect you.
Using a 19th-century hand press to teach history of printing technologies

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign information sciences and English professor Ryan Cordell has created a book arts studio with a refurbished hand press to teach the history of printing technology.

Leah PriceDec 16, 2022
Middlebrow novella waiting to happen