Biblio Banter

Special episode of Biblio Banter is set to show you books as you have never seen them before. Scary books and books about fear: Ellen, Erin, Laura and Natalia are discussing what to read and learn for Halloween and gloomy autumn days.

Tune in to find out about Edgar Poe, Gothic literature, anthropodermic bibliopegy, books on toilet paper rolls, and more fun book historian stuff.

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In this episode, we flag bad reading practices and try to figure out the who, what, why of "bad" reading. Please reach out on Twitter and/or Instagram to let us know your own bad reading habits!

On the next episode of Biblio Banter we discuss "bad" reading practices. Or are they? Here's a pre-listen.

In the new episode of Biblio Banter podcast Natalia is interviewing a BookTuber Faye from FayesParallelStories! Are you ready to read for 24 hours straight? How about 48? Or a month of reading Victorian novels with numerous strangers on the Internet? BookTube offers these and much more.

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Star Trek: Voyager's episode "Author, author" (episode 20, season 7) is in the focus of our discussion of copyright, artificial intelligence, holonovels and publishing! Is digital book a book? Can algorithms be creative? What does interactive storytelling of the future look like? We also play a hilarious game of choosing who of the characters of Star Trek franchise we would be stranded in Delta Quadrant, take to Riza or throw out of airlock. Hard choices ahead! Like, subscribe, comment! Visit our blog bookhistorypodcast.home.blog

Coming Soon!!! In this episode, Natalia, Erin, Ellen, and Laura practice social distancing via Skype to finish up our three-part discussion on how the future of the book is depicted in Star Trek. Holonovels, publishers, and the autonomy of AI (who doesn't love the doctor in Voyager???) are pondered as we analyze the episode  "Author, Author" of Star Trek: Voyager (Episode 20, Season 7) from the purview of book history.

We take a closer look at one storyline using Leslie Howsam's four-point  definition of the book in Part 2 of our Star Trek-themed episodes. In  "The Royale" (Season 2, Episode 12 of Next Generation), the Enterprise  investigates a planet after finding debris from a NASA shuttle and three  crew members enter the plot of a second-rate novel. The sad history of  astronaut Colonel Richie surfaces along with his diary and a copy of Hotel Royale,  which the crew uses to escape from this weird world of alien atonement.  Bookish elements abound in this episode! Listen to our discussion and  play along with our game of Star Trek Mad Libs!

This episode launches a series of discussions that allow us to embrace our love of Star Trek.  We boldly go where other book historians have gone before and tackle  "the future of the book." Spoiler alert: even in the twenty-fourth  century, the printed book is still not dead!

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Have a taste of what is coming up on the next episode of Biblio Banter, which will launch a series of discussions that allow us to embrace our love of Star Trek.  We boldly go where other book historians have gone before and tackle  "the future of the book." Spoiler alert: even in the twenty-fourth  century, the printed book is still not dead! 

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