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@jconnoll99 Thanks Jim for the great summing up, for organising this fantastic discussion and for giving us lots of useful things to think about. I lo...

@mikesanders I think part of this follows from the expectations now placed on grant holders by funding bodies, i.e. to develop robust data management ...

@steve_pentecost Not at all Steve, it's all interconnected! I would argue that one of the reasons historical novels appeal to readers and make sense...

Thanks @jim-connolly! When bidding for funding for our database project on subscription/social libraries, we ultimately decided that trying to do some...

@edmund-king I haven't read that book yet, but the two issues you're talking about are fascinating. In the case of the Library Company copy of Kames...

@katiehalsey Yes, I think you're absolutely right about Wollstonecraft there Katie - but I also think that we sometimes tend to be too quick to read...

@felsenstein Thanks Frank. I've found that there's a similar shift moving from the octavos and quartos of the eighteenth century, which do leave amp...

@stowheed Thank you Shaf for such great questions, many of which I'm still hoping to get answers for as I continue to work on this material! The Lib...

@felsenstein Women's reading is very much one of my central concerns, and I've long planned a book on women reading as important mediators of Enligh...

@kyleroberts6 Great question about inaction/absence, and one I'd love to hear others' views on. There are also practical considerations - library us...

Christine, the question of readability is important in at least a couple of different ways. (1) Hume and Robertson go out of their way to write narr...

Thanks Frank, Kyle and Christine for your comments! This may be a multi-pronged response because I'm in and out of meetings all day today, but Froude ...