The article discusses paratexts as research material for literary translation studies, as well as methods for their analysis, by using Finnish literary translation as an example. It gives examples of how paratexts can be used to describe the translation culture of the target culture (Prunč 1997) and the changes that have taken place in it. The article is based on the authors’ research projects on the translation and reception of Russian-language non-fiction and fiction as well as translated non-fiction, dealing with Russia or the Soviet Union by using bibliographic research and paratextual analysis. We apply the concept of paratext (Genette 1997; Batchelor 2018) and describe the stages of the research process from the collection of both peri- and epitexts to their processing and analysis. Finally, the article discusses the challenges of using paratextual data, including the ethical issues related to collecting data from the social media
