Notices by Daniel Bellingradt (dbellingradt@historians.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. #histodons #bookhistory #digitalhumanities #digitalhistory #digitization

As a historian watching the news, I am waiting for the part where they start exiling him twice to Elba. #histodons

I present a thread of screaming and horrified city gates on the occasion of the events taking place today:

https://historians.social/@dbellingradt/112597500047761667

#inauguration

Make future book historians happy: annotate your books, write into books, use them, scribble, draw, make witty or unreadable comments. #bookhistory #bookstodon #books

When everyone else was gone, the very last user of #Twitter (see image below) protocolled carefully his last words into the platform's logbook: Debate me, you losers!

This might have been the moment when the recent TikTok trend "crying while reading" started, around 1800 in Germany, when this young man started crying reading a letter and a befriended copperplate engraver was nearby and took advantage of the moment ... #histodons #bookstodon

When you are a famous author, but your last name sounds like “pig”, well, see for yourself.

The drawn pig on the binding was made by the book owner, Konrad Peutinger, as a reminder that this book is from the author whose last name - Porchus - sounds like pig (“porcus”). #histodons #bookhistory

Biete unbenutzte Bluesky invite codes (mint condition, Sammlerwert) für 2 Oasis-Tickets, Wembley 2025, Sitzplätze.

There is a paper story in this painting from 1672: welcome to the shortest thread for #paperhistory in one post only (plus much more details in the alt-text)

1 - a paper letter (being moved)
2 - used paper sheets (messy)
3 - a document bag! (fun)
4 - stored paper sheets (waiting)
5 - waste paper (lying around)

#histodons #bookhistory

Were book shops of Europe's past really full of books? Well, here is an #earlymodern bookseller from #Dresden, Germany, in front of his boxes. Yes, boxes, not books.

In these boxes unfolded printed sheets (of a certain publication) were stored. This is what you would have seen, next to small amounts of bound books and small publications, in a typical early modern book shop. So #bookhistory is sometimes a history of boxes too.

#histodons #bookstodon #books #bookshop

I am celebrating #ReformationDay with this sticker I spotted recently in the lovely city of Heidelberg. #histodons

This is a dance of the dead movie created out of the dozens of woodcuts from the 1520 Munich print "Der todten dantz mit figuren vnd schrifften" ( https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/de/details/bsb10180634 ).

#bookhistory #histodons #history #EarlyModernHistory

Why don't you start your week with a ram on your head? Pure #astronomy style from the 1670s. #Aries #histodons

The Verwurstung of books.

In 1974, the artist Dieter Roth experimented with the materiality of books - and made, among other "literature sausages", Hegel's complete work to 20 sausages using traditional sausage recipes, replacing the sausage's meat with book paper.

#histodons #bookhistory #bookstodon

What's the biggest Festschrift you know of? I have seen a 1500 pages volume, a 2 volumes package, and even a serial of Festschriften. Thanks for sharing, #academicchatter #academia

Das geöffnete Teutschland / Worinnen vermittelst einer zierlichen und wohlgefasten Reise-Carte für das nun teurere #Deutschlandticket/ die gewöhnlichsten Post-Wege und Meilen gezeiget / Denen Reisenden/ und curieusen Liebhabern/ zu Nutz und bequemligkeit/ ans Licht gestellet

#FiktiveFlugschriften

A loud shout out to the finger image removal technologies. You all contribute to making #bookhistory with access to the originals worth while.

And this happens when fingers that were used to hold down a book's page to be scanned were captured, and a software "repairs" this space automatically afterwards. In short: the scanned image is corrected by filling the problematic space with new content. In this case, this filling didn't fit too well: you see a "en=" text part from a different print, and some very bad pixel space. Welcome to the complex digital narrative of old printed books.

#bookhistory #digitalhistory #history #histodons

Is it a ghost? Is it a cloud? No, it is just a weird space created by a finger image removal technology trying to autocorrect the finger of the scanning person.

Welcome to another striking example of how automatic repair systems do crush our digital heritage. #bookhistory
#digitalhistory #histodons #history #digitization

And another weird space created by a finger image removal technology trying to autocorrect the finger of the scanning person. The inserted sample clearly does not fit in here (or anywhere else in this print, to be honest).

That's a kind of data corruption, if you ask me. Automatic repair systems do corrupt our digital heritage.

#bookhistory #digitalhistory #histodons #history #digitization