how accurate was it?!

But I'm also recording more granular data to answer other questions (e.g., which booksellers advertised most in which papers?), so results are slow going!

it varies from title to title and year to year--but, in general, a lot! James Tierney recorded that about 54% of London Evening Post's ads in 1745 were for books; I've gotten similar, so far, from the Daily Courant for a few months in 1734-5, with about 58% of its ads being for books

sadly, i haven't found anyone who will actually pay me for it, but I would love for it to be a job, too!

(minus Gale logging me out every 15 minutes, and only half the time displaying the date on the paper)

(to be clear, i do find this more or less fun)

this is exciting! next time I'm at the National Mining Museum of Scotland, I'll take a look to see if there's anything relevant in their collections not listed here!

Thanks! Rediscovering so much free time now that I'm through reviewing that stack! 😅

thank you, you too ❤️

I use Obsidian quite intensely for notekeeping and love it, but I don't know if I would use it for the actual composition of a book or even an article; Scrivener might do something like that better? (I've only briefly used it, but liked how it breaks down documents into sections)

when does sex/gender *become a supposedly self-evident, "mere" "historical fact" to be recorded on documents, indeed

(i apparently shouldn't post until editing posts is possible)

being accused of a murder Frankenstein was ultimately responsible *for - flying too close to the sun with the amount of clauses in that sentence

tbh i think it was actually the episode's writer who was responsible for the Xfiles scene (he was also at princeton at the same time), but the Prof in question was asked about it, and was convinced it was Duchovny that got his character hit by a bus - its also more interesting that way, anyway ;)

& rfk jr running out the door was their response to the crises facing grad students