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Our final session, the Publisher's Roundtable, is starting in ten minutes at #SHARPIES26!

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Dr Shafquat Towheed @shaftowheed.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Join us for our final social event at the #SHARPIES26, an all-languages book recommendation event led by @altibel.bsky.social, starting in 15 minutes!

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In case you missed this, the recording will be available until the end of 2026 - everything you wanted to know about the SHARP Book Prize 👇🏼

MNG - University Presses @mngupbooks.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

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Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book series includes books on the history of print culture, authorship, reading, writing, printing, and publishing Browse the virtual #SHARPIES26 MNG exhibition here buff.ly/gq46p9e @sharpweb.org @umasspress.bsky.social

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Alex Wingate @bibliowingate.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Mark Lester encouraging us to look in both directions from our normal period (past/future) for comparisons/inspiration is right on the money. This is what I love about book history and SHARP, you hear/read research on a completely different area/period, and it totally changes your work #SHARPIES26

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Shannon K. Supple @mazarine.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Next up at #SHARPIES26: @kinohi.bsky.social in conversation with @shaftowheed.bsky.social! Join us in about ten minutes!

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I’m laughing listening to Priyasha Mukhopadhyay talk about her sources’ letters writing about how many letters and forms they have to write to get even small things done. I work in a library in a university. This is deeply relatable. #SHARPIES26

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Join us at the #SHARPIES26 in half an hour for an interview with Adrian Johns and Priyasha Mukhopadhyay, chaired by Hwisang Cho, on Technologies of Reading!

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🌍📚What promises to be a really exciting conversation on "The World and the Book" is coming up next at #SHARPIES26 (in just over half an hour). Featuring Mary C. Fuller, Claire Lavarreda, @guillopupo.bsky.social, and @drxinyiwen.bsky.social, moderated by Kirsti Salmi-Niklander.

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Shannon K. Supple @mazarine.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Our #SHARPIES26 panel featuring Book History editor Yuri Cowan and Lingua Franca editor @libripotens.bsky.social will begin in 5 minutes!

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Mark Lester just referenced Neal Stephenson’s “Snow Crash” and I am so here for it. #SHARPIES26

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MNG - University Presses @mngupbooks.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

A landmark series in long 18th-century studies & the Romantic era, Transits publishes volumes that are timely, transformative, & global in their engagement with arts, literature, culture& history Browse the virtual #SHARPIES26 MNG exhibition buff.ly/Uss2pUl @sharpweb.org @bucknellupress.bsky.social

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Jocelyn Hargrave @jochargrave.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Our third and final keynote is taking place in 35 minutes at #SHARPIES26. Come hear Mark Lester and Mark Letteney talk about Ancient Book History, moderated by Anna Siebach-Larsen!

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Ruthie Block’s keynote has been a particular standout of #SHARPIES26!

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Jocelyn Hargrave @jochargrave.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

An excellent panel. @ruthahnert.bsky.social’s visual mapping was particularly inspiring for my own research. Thank you! #SHARPIES26 @sharpweb.org

Lisa Maruca @lmaruca.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

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Such a diverse array of time periods, geographies, and genres led to a very productive conversation. This has been so much fun to attend and participate in! #SHARPIES26

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Next up at #SHARPIES26: A Conversation on Youth Reading with Titas Bose, Natalie Hsieh, and Elizabeth Hoiem, chaired by @lmaruca.bsky.social!

Andrea Reyes E (she/her) @altibel.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Next up at #SHARPIES26: a conversation on Early Modern Printing and Publishing with @ruthahnert.bsky.social, @sebastianahnert.bsky.social, Andreas Patrick Bassett, Stephanie A. Leitch, and Geoffrey Turnovsky. Chaired by @andiesilva.bsky.social! Join us in less than half an hour!

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This morning at #SHARPIES2026, Aakriti Mandhwani talked about her research on Everyday readers in post-independence India. Fabulous research which luckily is available at our @ubleiden.bsky.social #readers #BookHistory www.umasspress.com/978162534790...

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Everyday Reading

Finalist for the 2025 SHARP Book History Book Prize During the two difficult decades immediately following the 1947 Indian Independence, a new, commercially ...

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Susan Pickford @libripotens.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

For those of you eagerly awaiting our next session at #SHARPIES26, the early-career mentoring social event starts in an hour. If you haven't pre-registered yet, you can still do so in the lobby!

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Unveiling my new #bookhistory tat ahead of speaking at the #sharpies tomorrow. #BH4ever @sharpweb.org

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Shannon K. Supple @mazarine.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Wow! Next year’s @sharpweb.org conference will be in Pretoria, South Africa in early July 2027! 🤩 #SHARPIES26

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Shannon K. Supple @mazarine.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Collected things in public narratives are either Troves (valuable, glistening wows) or Dusty, moldy, messy hoards (pejorative) Ruthie Block had interesting things to say about formulating “accumulations.” I think more consideration of framing & terminologies like this would be fruitful. #SHARPIES26

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Alex Wingate @bibliowingate.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Came late to the current #SHARPIES26 session, but I'm so happy to see all the SHARP people, even on screens!!

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Emory College of Arts & Sciences @emorycollege.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

The Annual General Meeting is starting in just a few minutes! Hope to see many SHARPists, new and old!

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Great opportunity to listen in on insights from @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social 👇

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Shannon K. Supple @mazarine.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

What a great turn out and a great event (could only have been improved with an on screen appearance of the cat!)

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A nice thread between the two initial #SHARPIES26 talks thus far is the inability to save everything (noted by @eve.gd) and the gathering, scattering, and losses of Black books collected by Mayme Clayton (noted by Ruthie Block). Collecting, gathering, appraising are all complicated.

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Alexander Manshel @manshel.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

The #SHARPIES26 is taking a short break. Come back in 2.5 hours for a conversation on Archives, Power, and Preservation! Preservation, of digital and of Black material texts, has already been such a fascinating topic to track in the first two sessions!

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TOMORROW! Join @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social, @gbarnhisel.bsky.social, and me at the @sharpweb.org festival for a conversation about books, how books get made, and how books about how books get made get made!

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Colleen Barrett @colleenlovesbks.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Keynote from Ruthie Block starting now: "Stacker/Finder/Keeper: Mayme Clayton and the Itinerant Life of Black Books" at the #SHARPIES26!

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Joining the @sharpweb.org #SHARPIES26 from my living room with lots of coffee and a sleeping orange cat. He must be resting up to join the conversation I am chairing later today.

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SHARP @sharpweb.org · 03/07/2026

The #SHARPIES26 is about to begin! Our first session starts in 15 minutes and features @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social talking with @eve.gd about Digital-Textual Histories! Come join us!

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This event is going to be so much fun! We can't wait! 📖👀

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Leslie Howsam @lesliehowsam.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Some #bookhistory for Canada Day. Carole Gerson, member of @sharpweb.org and BSC/SCB has a new book about authorship and commemoration.

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SHARP @sharpweb.org · 30/06/2026

This is the last week to register for the SHARPIES, an online book history festival, taking place next week from Tuesday through Thursday! Registration is free for SHARP members, and membership is $55-$100. Please consider joining us (we're a very welcoming community!) events.zoom.us/ev/Ap9iEZwmC...

Flyer showing the names of Leslie Howsam, Alexander Manshel, Matthew Kirschenbaum, Sydney Shep, Adrian Johns, Ruthie Block, Mark Letteney, Yael Sternhell, Beth Driscoll, Kinohi Nishikawa, Dan Sinykin, Greg Barnhisel, Aakriti Mandhwani, Mary C. Fuller, Mark Lester, Peter McDonald, and Martin Paul Eve.

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SHARP @sharpweb.org · 26/06/2026

We love to see #BookHistory in Dublin! Where will you take your next issue?

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Jim Wald @citizenwald.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Wonderful! I still recall how, during the @sharpweb.org conference in Dublin, I was the only person who signed up for a proffered visit --perhaps because the tour was scheduled during regular panel sessions. At any rate, I got a private tour, and it was wonderful and unforgettable: Many thanks!