James Cummings
@jamescummings.bsky.social
Reader in Digital Textual Studies and Late Medieval Literature at @newcastleuni.bsky.social
jamescummings on former birdsite
Long-term contributor to the Text Encoding Initiative #TEI, interested in digital scholarly editions #DH #medieval #drama #HTR #AI
jamescummings on former birdsite
Long-term contributor to the Text Encoding Initiative #TEI, interested in digital scholarly editions #DH #medieval #drama #HTR #AI
Remember when people told us format-shifting DRM'd work was illicit?
Now it's general advice:
"If the book is on my Kindle, I first run it through Calibre [which] lets me convert the Kindle’s AZW3 file into a clean PDF, which I can then upload to NotebookLM."
www.androidpolice.com/notebooklm-h...
Now it's general advice:
"If the book is on my Kindle, I first run it through Calibre [which] lets me convert the Kindle’s AZW3 file into a clean PDF, which I can then upload to NotebookLM."
www.androidpolice.com/notebooklm-h...
November 29, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Remember when people told us format-shifting DRM'd work was illicit?
Now it's general advice:
"If the book is on my Kindle, I first run it through Calibre [which] lets me convert the Kindle’s AZW3 file into a clean PDF, which I can then upload to NotebookLM."
www.androidpolice.com/notebooklm-h...
Now it's general advice:
"If the book is on my Kindle, I first run it through Calibre [which] lets me convert the Kindle’s AZW3 file into a clean PDF, which I can then upload to NotebookLM."
www.androidpolice.com/notebooklm-h...
We may have remembered to visit NCL's annual "Spudfest" yesterday. Although the potato starch bags to take home free potatoes are a great innovation, they do tend to tear under the weight of potatoes. 😉😀😂
November 28, 2025 at 11:41 AM
We may have remembered to visit NCL's annual "Spudfest" yesterday. Although the potato starch bags to take home free potatoes are a great innovation, they do tend to tear under the weight of potatoes. 😉😀😂
About to listen to Fiona Stafford speak about "What are books for? Jane Austen Investigates"
#NCLInsights
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#NCLInsights
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November 27, 2025 at 5:37 PM
About to listen to Fiona Stafford speak about "What are books for? Jane Austen Investigates"
#NCLInsights
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#NCLInsights
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As usual @lucimcummings.bsky.social has gone above and beyond with our Halloween decorations for the local guisers. This year doing Slimer and Spiderman pumpkins and 3 floating ghosts.
October 31, 2025 at 7:57 PM
As usual @lucimcummings.bsky.social has gone above and beyond with our Halloween decorations for the local guisers. This year doing Slimer and Spiderman pumpkins and 3 floating ghosts.
That ironic thing where you are cycling into work all week because of major metro refurbishment but are simultaneously teaching non-cycle plays and fragments.
October 29, 2025 at 10:44 PM
That ironic thing where you are cycling into work all week because of major metro refurbishment but are simultaneously teaching non-cycle plays and fragments.
Given my own ways of looking at nested hierarchies, I particularly liked this bit:
October 29, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Given my own ways of looking at nested hierarchies, I particularly liked this bit:
Watching online the intros to the Edward Boyle Memorial Lecture, as collaboration between ULeeds/RENKEI/RSA is taking place in Osaka, I'm reminded that when using PDF slides - make them full screen. Partly now as PDF readers _insist_ on having an AI pop up for their embedded AI services.
October 10, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Watching online the intros to the Edward Boyle Memorial Lecture, as collaboration between ULeeds/RENKEI/RSA is taking place in Osaka, I'm reminded that when using PDF slides - make them full screen. Partly now as PDF readers _insist_ on having an AI pop up for their embedded AI services.
It was a fun night out and we even entered a raffle to win this artwork of Dr Frank-N-Furter.
I will now think of that nearby village as the Village of the Damned!
I will now think of that nearby village as the Village of the Damned!
September 27, 2025 at 10:42 PM
It was a fun night out and we even entered a raffle to win this artwork of Dr Frank-N-Furter.
I will now think of that nearby village as the Village of the Damned!
I will now think of that nearby village as the Village of the Damned!
Of course, the problem with changing editions to a single one more accessible to these undergraduate students on this course is that you have to go through and change _all_ the line numbers on every slide, and do new screenshots of every quotation.
September 27, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Of course, the problem with changing editions to a single one more accessible to these undergraduate students on this course is that you have to go through and change _all_ the line numbers on every slide, and do new screenshots of every quotation.
What would you do on a gloriously sunny Saturday in Kraków? In my case, I'm in a lightly air conditioned university building, using their power and eduroam to catch up on work. Still lots of conferences going on, so wearing my lanyard so people will just assume that I'm at a different conference.
September 20, 2025 at 10:06 AM
What would you do on a gloriously sunny Saturday in Kraków? In my case, I'm in a lightly air conditioned university building, using their power and eduroam to catch up on work. Still lots of conferences going on, so wearing my lanyard so people will just assume that I'm at a different conference.
Congrats to all on the LEAF-Writer team for winning the #TEI @teiconsortium.bsky.social Rahtz Prize for TEI ingenuity. And also the Endings Project for winning the Community Prize!
September 19, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Congrats to all on the LEAF-Writer team for winning the #TEI @teiconsortium.bsky.social Rahtz Prize for TEI ingenuity. And also the Endings Project for winning the Community Prize!
At #TEI2025 in Kraków listening to keynote by Sebastian Winkler of the #ERC explaining how to navigate creating an ERC proposal, especially SH5 (Texts and Concepts)
@teiconsortium.bsky.social
@teiconsortium.bsky.social
September 18, 2025 at 3:13 PM
At #TEI2025 in Kraków listening to keynote by Sebastian Winkler of the #ERC explaining how to navigate creating an ERC proposal, especially SH5 (Texts and Concepts)
@teiconsortium.bsky.social
@teiconsortium.bsky.social
It has always been about the process.
"Even if a student uses AI to achieve a higher grade than deserved, they have lost the experience that makes engaging in humanistic inquiry fruitful."
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
"Even if a student uses AI to achieve a higher grade than deserved, they have lost the experience that makes engaging in humanistic inquiry fruitful."
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
September 12, 2025 at 1:25 AM
It has always been about the process.
"Even if a student uses AI to achieve a higher grade than deserved, they have lost the experience that makes engaging in humanistic inquiry fruitful."
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
"Even if a student uses AI to achieve a higher grade than deserved, they have lost the experience that makes engaging in humanistic inquiry fruitful."
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Trying to get over jetlag walking around identifying birds using the Merlin app. Harder in Tokyo (some nice parks but if you aren't near them, there are fewer birds). Challenge: record one new species! Across the street from my hotel I managed to record an Asian Tit (new) and sparrows (not new)
September 11, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Trying to get over jetlag walking around identifying birds using the Merlin app. Harder in Tokyo (some nice parks but if you aren't near them, there are fewer birds). Challenge: record one new species! Across the street from my hotel I managed to record an Asian Tit (new) and sparrows (not new)
Waves from even further east in Tokyo. 👋
September 10, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Waves from even further east in Tokyo. 👋
Until ~2015, people sometimes misused 'digitalization' to mean 'digitization', instead of "the administration of digitalis". Now it means 'the act of moving a system from analogue to digital processes'. I'm fine with language change, but I keep assuming ppl are talking about managing heart failure.
September 4, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Until ~2015, people sometimes misused 'digitalization' to mean 'digitization', instead of "the administration of digitalis". Now it means 'the act of moving a system from analogue to digital processes'. I'm fine with language change, but I keep assuming ppl are talking about managing heart failure.
Finally finished stripping back the paint, sanding, and danish oiling our stairs and bannister, deciding to keep lots of the history of the last 90 years. This early evening, I did the riser covers, melamine coated MDF, all cut to fit the eccentricities of each individual stair.
September 3, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Finally finished stripping back the paint, sanding, and danish oiling our stairs and bannister, deciding to keep lots of the history of the last 90 years. This early evening, I did the riser covers, melamine coated MDF, all cut to fit the eccentricities of each individual stair.
While lots of others employed in the UK enjoy a bank holiday Monday, I'm on a train to Vienna for an advisory board meeting. I always seem to forget UK bank holidays exist and end up working on them.
August 25, 2025 at 11:05 AM
While lots of others employed in the UK enjoy a bank holiday Monday, I'm on a train to Vienna for an advisory board meeting. I always seem to forget UK bank holidays exist and end up working on them.
What better way to take a break after walking up the Schlossberg than to sit in the shade of the princess tree and proofread flash fiction by @lucimcummings.bsky.social
August 23, 2025 at 11:52 AM
What better way to take a break after walking up the Schlossberg than to sit in the shade of the princess tree and proofread flash fiction by @lucimcummings.bsky.social
What do you do when in foreign lands and your extremely lightweight daypack (Onya Back) rucksack breaks it (what ChatGPT tells me is a) tri-glide slide? Why use a safety pin that you happened to bring with you, of course.
August 23, 2025 at 9:47 AM
What do you do when in foreign lands and your extremely lightweight daypack (Onya Back) rucksack breaks it (what ChatGPT tells me is a) tri-glide slide? Why use a safety pin that you happened to bring with you, of course.
Here is a photo of you in Graz to provoke those memories.
August 22, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Here is a photo of you in Graz to provoke those memories.
Here is a photo of you in Graz to provoke those memories.
August 22, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Here is a photo of you in Graz to provoke those memories.
Today has been flight NCL - AMS - VIE, then CAT to Wien Mitte, walk to Wein HBF, now IC to Graz HBF.
But I was given some free popcorn 🍿 in the city centre of Vienna.
But I was given some free popcorn 🍿 in the city centre of Vienna.
August 22, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Today has been flight NCL - AMS - VIE, then CAT to Wien Mitte, walk to Wein HBF, now IC to Graz HBF.
But I was given some free popcorn 🍿 in the city centre of Vienna.
But I was given some free popcorn 🍿 in the city centre of Vienna.
Last night we went to see the Handlebards (who cycle with all their gear between performances) perform Much Ado About Nothing at Northumberlandia. Very interesting active on stage doubling, and Hero was played by a mop in dress.
August 21, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Last night we went to see the Handlebards (who cycle with all their gear between performances) perform Much Ado About Nothing at Northumberlandia. Very interesting active on stage doubling, and Hero was played by a mop in dress.