On November 9th and 10th of 2023 we were very happy to host the "Ethnographic and Participatory Research Approaches to Investigate Social Reading Practices workshop at the Digital Humanities Lab in Basel. Our two wonderful speakers DeNel Rehberg Sedo and Danielle Fuller took us on a two-day trip through various ethnographic techniques they have applied in their research on various social reading practices, such as book clubs, mass reading events and bookstagram. We even got to practice some of these techniques in a live Shared Reading session facilitated by our amazing collaborators from Sharing Stories Verein, Alexandra Stäheli and Beatrice Bürki.