As is my custom, I am writing, for my own historical logging, to show what I read and wrote this year. This year I have been working at Knowledge Commons, which has been a great environment with lovely people and a worthwhile project. It has meant that much of my time has been consumed with technical matters as is proper, but I did still manage to get up early in the morning and write.
Kidney stuff has continued to blight me this year. I continue to need a huge amount of dialysis every week, 32 hours or so at present. But doing this overnight means that my days are free and I can continue to work and enjoy the things that I do. The other real problem with kidney failure is the near constant nausea that you get as toxins accumulate in your body. But also dialysis causes nausea in itself. So it’s a bit of a challenging situation in many ways.
Perhaps the highlight of 2025 for me was receiving the SHARP DeLong Prize for Book History from the Society of the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing. This is a massive honour and makes me feel vindicated in my choices around my book, Theses on the Metaphors of Digital Textual History. I will be doing a special event with SHARP next year focusing on this book and I hope as many of you as possible can join me.
My Publications and Work in 2025
I also wanted to share a list of my own publications and other work from the past year.
Books
- Eve, Martin Paul, The Dark Web (Boston, MA: The MIT Press, 2028)
- Eve, Martin Paul, Repetition and Return: The Politics of Episodicity in Star Trek: Voyager (Michigan: Lever Press, 2027)
Edited Books
- Wilkinson, Laura J., and Martin Paul Eve, eds., Brown, Browsers, Back-Ends, Boards, Beards, and a Bibliography: A Festschrift in Honour of Geoffrey Bilder (Aix-les-Bains and Broadstairs: Self-Published, 2025)
Peer-reviewed articles
- Grady, Tom, Elaine Sykes, and Martin Paul Eve, ‘How Can We Achieve Sustainable Funding for Open Access Books?’, Insights: The UKSG Journal, 38.4 (2025), 1–9
Book chapters
- Eve, Martin Paul, ‘Rage Against the Machine: The Politics of Open Access, Large Language Models, and the Reaction Against Open’, in Digital Inequality: Transcultural Perspectives on the Digital Divide from the Arts, Humanities, and Sciences, ed. by Bas Groes, Alex Goody, and Asami Nakamura (Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, 2027)
- Eve, Martin Paul, ‘Atomics’, in George Orwell in Context, ed. by Nathan Waddell (Cambridge University Press, 2026)
- Eve, Martin Paul, ‘Shadow Libraries and Pirate Infrastructures’, in Critical Infrastructure Studies & Digital Humanities, ed. by Alan Liu, Urszula Pawlicka-Deger, and James Smithies (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2026)
- Eve, Martin Paul, ‘“Contains Scenes of Mild Peril”: Illuminating the Catalogues of Dark Archives’, in Library Catalogues as Data: Research, Practice, and Usage, ed. by Melissa Terras, Paul Gooding, and Sarah Ames (London: Facet, 2025)
- Eve, Martin Paul, ‘Digital Piracy’, in Handbuch Soziale Praktiken Und Digitale Alltagswelten, ed. by Heidrun Friese, Marcus Nolden, and Miriam Schreiter (Berlin: Springer, 2025)
Book reviews
- Eve, Martin Paul, ‘Review of Binding Media by Élika Ortega’, The ALH Review, 2025
Media and other work
- Eve, Martin Paul, ‘Creative Commons Licenses and Copyright May Not Stop Academic Work Being Used to Train AI’, LSE Impact Blog, 2025
- Barbosa, Isaac, and Martin Paul Eve, ‘Unchecked Growth in Publishing “Threatens Economic Model”’, Research Professional, 2025
- Priego, Ernesto, and Martin Paul Eve, ‘“If You Want to Make the World Better, You’ve Got to Be Prepared to Put the Groundwork in”: An Interview with Martin Eve on Social Justice and Design Justice in Open Access’, Figshare, 2025
- Eve, Martin Paul, ‘Unsung Heroes Who Are Lifeblood of NHS’, Kidney Matters, 28, 2025, 14–16
- Eve, Martin Paul, ‘Researchers’ Experience of Publishing Academic Books Open Access’, UKRI Case Studies, 2025
- Dotti, Gianluca, and Martin Paul Eve, ‘Corsa Contro Il Tempo per Salvare Il Sapere Digitale (Race against Time to Save Digital Knowledge)’, Il Sole 24 Ore, 32, 2025, 16–16
- McIntyre, Fiona, and Martin Paul Eve, ‘Why Are Universities Pulling out of Big Publishing Deals?’, Research Fortnight, 2025
As 2025 draws to a close, I’m also taking a moment to reflect on the books that I have read this year. It’s been a diverse reading experience, spanning contemporary fiction to analyses of technology and history. I also read a LOT of books about Star Trek for my work, PhD theses for examination/supervision, and other books that didn’t make this list of “reading for fun”.
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1 | Orbital, Harvey, Samantha | ||
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2 | Averting the Digital Dark Age: How Archivists, Librarians, and Technologists Built the Web a Memory, Milligan, Ian | ||
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3 | The Proof of My Innocence, Coe, Jonathan | ||
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4 | Old Books, New Technologies: The Representation, Conservation and Transformation of Books since 1700, McKitterick, David | ||
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5 | Stories of Your Life and Others, Chiang, Ted | ||
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6 | Exhalation: Stories, Chiang, Ted | ||
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7 | The Happiness of Dogs: Why the Unexamined Life Is Most Worth Living, Rowlands, Mark | ||
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8 | The Poisonwood Bible, Kingsolver, Barbara | ||
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9 | Flight Behaviour, Kingsolver, Barbara | ||
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10 | Unsheltered, Kingsolver, Barbara | ||
| 11 | Book manuscript for The MIT Press | |||
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12 | The Lacuna, Kingsolver, Barbara | ||
| 13 | PhD thesis for examination at the University of Brighton | |||
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14 | Tor: From the Dark Web to the Future of Privacy, Collier, Ben | ||
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15 | The Frozen People, Griffiths, Elly | ||
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16 | Weaving the Dark Web: Legitimacy on FreeNet, Tor, and I2P, Gehl, Robert W. | ||
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17 | Eleanor Marx: A Life, Holmes, Rachel | ||
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18 | The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State, Engels, Friedrich | ||
| 19 | PhD thesis for student | |||
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20 | Binding Media. Hybrid Print-Digital Literatures from across the Americas, Ortega, Elika | ||
| 21 | Book manuscript for review for Stanford UP | |||
| 22 | Book manuscript for review for University of London Press | |||
| 23 | Exploring Star Trek: Voyager: Critical Essays, Lively, Robert L., ed. | |||
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24 | The Life of Rachel Speght: A Forward Woman, Stringer, Helen M. | ||
| 25 | Cambridge MPhil dissertations for adjudication | |||
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26 | The Dark Net, Bartlett, Jamie | ||
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27 | Shadow Ticket, Pynchon, Thomas |
So there, said the mayor, that’s that.