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Paperback Paradise
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Book
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Allie Alvis 🌷@book-historia.bsky.social |
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Book historian, medieval manuscript liker, Curator of Special Collections at the Winterthur Library. She/they. Biblioshitposter.
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Paperback Paradise
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Book
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Allie Alvis 🌷
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GOD I wish I could come to this conference 😭😭😭
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Allie Alvis 🌷
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Is it really though? 😒
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Allie Alvis 🌷
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The fruits of sharing library collections on social media! ✨ This cover story about the Winterthur Library’s copy of Or et Couleur (and interview with me!) came about thanks to an Instagram video 🙌 📜
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Allie Alvis 🌷
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(Most of) Intermediate Horizons is great!
(Not counting my chapter about social media, which, while fine, is very much one of those “pictures taken 5 seconds before disaster [Twitter implosion]” situations) uwpress.wisc.edu/books/5809.htm
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Iron Spike
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Hey, so. I understand that this is anecdotal and not research, but. It is WILD how useless social media has become for promo. It's a fucking disgrace, really.
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Martha Henson
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Delighted to find that poet Dennis Lee, whose Civil Elegies poem contains the couplet which inspired this maxim, also wrote the lyrics for Fraggle Rock.
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Allie Alvis 🌷
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So why do I still feel like I’m not doing enough 😭😭😭
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Allie Alvis 🌷
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Article 1: SUBMITTED Article 2: DONE Article 3: starting imminently Course syllabus: in process
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Paris Marx
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Google’s emissions are up 48% in 5 years. Microsoft’s are up 30% since 2020. Those soaring figures are being driven by mass investments in data centers to power AI tools. Generative AI is a climate disaster and data center expansion must be stopped.
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Yvonne Seale
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This Middle Dutch manuscript (ca. 1400) shows how parchment warps when exposed to intense heat—in this case, during a WWII bombing raid. No longer readable as a book, it's still a powerful historical source.
Universitätsbibl. Kassel, 8° Ms. theol. 15: orka.bibliothek.uni-kassel.de/viewer/image...
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Kirsten
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In my line of work (I’m a creative director!) color scheme usually is like “this is cyan, emerald, cream, and slate” and colorway is like, “this shirt comes in three different colorways: periwinkle, ginger, and cappuccino”
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Allie Alvis 🌷
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I would spot clean it with soap and water!
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Allie Alvis 🌷
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Oh my god I’m not even a boomer, I’m the silent generation apparently
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Allie Alvis 🌷
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When did “color schemes” become “color ways”? I feel like a boomer
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Gretchen Leigh
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This is one of the coolest things we've done in a while.
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Allie Alvis 🌷
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*makes the sound that the guy in that Vine makes where someone bumps into him and all the spaghetti falls out of his pockets*
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Allie Alvis 🌷
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When I tell you I spent HOURS playing this game
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Allie Alvis 🌷
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It turns out that cannon balling into a vat of hot boiling trauma will hinder your ability to concentrate on stuff the day after! Me sowing, me reaping, etc
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Allie Alvis 🌷
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Ope, I did find record of tiny baby egg Allie wishing they "could clone [themself] into a guy" 😂
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Allie Alvis 🌷
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I have never been more thankful for my trauma response of just forgetting the vast majority of my young adulthood 🙏 That stuff should stay buried, I think
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Allie Alvis 🌷
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It was also very cute to see all of the XD's and early 2000s internet language, but hot diggety shit did I go through Some Stuff!
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Allie Alvis 🌷
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I made the mistake of logging back into my LiveJournal (from 2003, wheeew) to look for something to put into a personal essay, and the PSYCHIC DAMAGE I just took is incalculable. Boy my parents were sure mean to me all the time!
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Allie Alvis 🌷
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Book historia’s painfully niche skeets to stave off the horror of living in a collapsing empire (tm)
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Allie Alvis 🌷
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What makes this particularly appealing to me, a Certified Lunch Hater with Autism, is that you don’t actually have to experience the texture of tha Goop. The Goopening takes place off screen (in your tummy)
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Allie Alvis 🌷
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I don’t want to have to eat, just gimme tha Goop
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Allie Alvis 🌷
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It sounds a little gross but I, as a Certified Lunch Hater, would extremely fw something like this
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Allie Alvis 🌷
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The world sucks but my lunch bagel today looks like one of those frogs with buttcheeks, so
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executive editor, barbell quarterly
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a thing to remember, in all of this horror, is that these are not the actions of a political party that is confident it represents the will of the people, and who is currently out of power and enslaved to a deeply flawed avatar. the struggle is not over and they have not won
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Joseph Galbo
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Fellas, I am ready for those precedented times.
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Liesbeth Corens
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Time is a lie.
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Colleen Theisen
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UCLA Special Collections has an original illustration as their home page image. I've never seen that before, but I love it and now I am fully converted to Special Collections commissioning original artwork, especially with the sudden appearance of AI art. 📜 www.library.ucla.edu/visit/locati...
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Allie Alvis 🌷
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Allie Alvis 🌷
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Allie Alvis 🌷
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I also made a video about arsenical books like a million years ago (apparently only one year ago in reality, but the production quality makes me cringe a little) youtu.be/Z51mQPqqOuo?...
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Allie Alvis 🌷
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The piece will (hopefully) be published in a special issue of a journal ALL about arsenical books, but it’s part of the larger Poison Book Project based at U Delaware and Winterthur! sites.udel.edu/poisonbookpr...
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Allie Alvis 🌷
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Got myself a gay little wreath as a reward 🌈
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Allie Alvis 🌷
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Managed to squeeze out 3000 words on SciComm, BibComm, and arsenical books this weekend 🙌
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Allie Alvis 🌷
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This is a new desk so it’s the hottest club in town, apparently
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Allie Alvis 🌷
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My son is taking up about as much space on the desk as my laptop 🙃
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Lynne M. Thomas 🏳️🌈🚀🦄 📜
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melissa~
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explaining nonbinary people to my cis gf
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Allie Alvis 🌷
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God I always feel like such a dickhead when I cite myself 😖
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Allie Alvis 🌷
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Post retracted, he is now hitting me with his tail
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Allie Alvis 🌷
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A polite boy
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Allie Alvis 🌷
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Saturday writing tableau
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Allie Alvis 🌷
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Gotta say, these “starter packs” feel a little cliquey?
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Allie Alvis 🌷
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I am overwhelmed
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Allie Alvis 🌷
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The country is descending further into hell at the speed of sound, I’m hungry, but I can’t eat because my face is numb, because I popped a filling out and had to get it emergency filled
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Kevin Gannon
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"A flailing gerontocracy holding the rest of us hostage in its bony grip. A country that is circling the drain and taking the world down with it. A rotten, vicious, loathsome political system." How I feel, far better than I can articulate it
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