Bibliography
15 min readJan 25, 2018
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This is a list of physical books that I used in my writing (minus manuals, magazines, and maintenance manuals). It’s the physical counterpart to my digital research library.
Updated in July 2023.
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Writing and technology
- Track changes: A literary history of word processing (2016, Kirschenbaum)
- The writer’s desk (1996, Krementz)
- Space between words: The origins of silent reading (2000, Saenger)
- Writing in the computer age: Word Processing Skills and Style for Every Writer (1983)
- The work of revision (2013)
- Writing & Computers (1985, Daiute)
- Reading Writing Interfaces: From the Digital to the Bookbound (2014)
- Plain Text: The poetics of computation (2017, Tenen)
- Electric Language: A Philosophical Study of Word Processing (1987, Heim)
- Understanding media: The extensions of man (1964, Marshall McLuhan)
- Discourse Networks, 1800/1900 (1992, Kittler)
- Gramophone, Film, Typewriter (1999, Kittler)
- Write, Edit, & Print
- The Written World: The Power of Stories to Shape People, History, Civilization (2017, Puchner)
- The history and power of writing (1995, Martin)
- Our own devices: How technology remakes humanity (2004, Tenner)
- The origins of writing
- A better pencil (2012, Baron)
- The mechanic muse (1988, Kenner)
- The half-life of an American essayist (2007, Krystal)
- Tyrants and typewriters: Communiques from the struggle for truth (Conquest)
- Nerds per minute: A history of competitive writing (2021, Wrona)
Modern writing
- Text entry systems: Mobility, accessibility, universality (2007)
- txtng: the gr8 db8 (Crystal)
- Language and the internet (Crystal)
- Damn you, autocorrect! (Madison)
- Kill duck before serving: Red faces at The New York Times (2002)
Typewriter history
- The typewriter and the men who made it (1954, Current)
- The wonderful writing machine (1954, Bliven)
- The writing machine: A history of the typewriter (1973, Adler)
- Antique typewriters: From Creed to QWERTY (1997, Adler)
- Century of the typewriter (1974, Beeching)
- The Typewriter Revolution: A Typist’s Companion for the 21st Century (2015, Polt)
- The history and development of typewriters (1964)
- The typewriter legend (1985)
- The story of the typewriter 1873–1923 📖
- The early history of the typewriter (1918, Weller) 📖
- Evolution of the typewriter (1917, Oden) 📖 [note another book with the same title]
- Henry W. Roby’s story of the invention of the typewriter (1925, Quaife) 📖
- The history of the typewriter (1909, Mares) 📖
- The history of the typewriter: Successor to the pen: An illustrated account of the origin, rise and development of the writing machine (1985 reprint of the above, Mares)
- Typewriter row (Brown)
- Scripts, grooves, and writing machines: Representing technology in the Edison era (2000)
- The Carl P. Dietz collection of typewriters (1965) 📖
- Mr. Typewriter: A Biography Of Christopher Latham Sholes (1961) 📖
- The Iron Whim, A Fragmented History of Typewriting (2005, Wershler-Henry)
- Typewriter: The history, the machines, the writers (2015, Allan)
- The Story Of The Typewriter: From The Eighteenth To The Twentieth Centuries 📖
- The Remington Rand Consolidation 📖
- The Typewriter: A Short History On Its 75th Anniversary 1873–1948 📖
Typewriter collecting
- Typewriter topics (1923) / The Typewriter: History & Encyclopedia (1923) / Collector’s guide to antique typewriters (1981) / The Typewriter: An Illustrated History (2000) 📖
- Old Typewriters (1993, James) 📖
Typewriter history books by typewriter manufacturers
- A brief history of the typewriter (Remington) 📖
- The evolution of the typewriter (1921, Royal) [note another book with the same title]
- The history of the typewriter (1950, Underwood) 📖
Typewriter coffee table books
- The typewriter: A graphic history of the beloved machine (2015, Vangool)
- Typewriter: A celebration of the ultimate writing machine (2016, Robert, Weil)
- Typewriters: Iconic Machines from the Golden Age of Mechanical Writing (2017, Casillo)
- The typewriter: An innovation in writing (2017, SFO Museum)
Specific typewriter history
- The five-pound secretary: An illustrated history of the Blickensderfer typewriter
- The romance division: A different side of IBM (1991)
- Fox Typewriter Co. (2016, Anderson) 📖
- The Caligraph Publications (2007)
Typewriting industry
- The typewriter industry: The impact of a significant technological innovation (1969) 📖
- World trade in typewriters 1948–1958 📖
- Typewriter in business (1933) 📖
Computer history
- IBM’s 360 and early 370 systems (2003)
- The maverick and his machine (Maney)
- International Business Machines: A business history (1954, Engelbourg)
- Computer: A history of the information machine
- Before the Computer: IBM, NCR, Burroughs, & Remington Rand & the Industry They Created, 1865–1956 (2000, Cortada)
- Hackers (1984, Levy)
- From dits to bits: A personal history of the electronic computer (1980, Lukett)
- A few good men from Univac (1990)
- Who’s afraid of Big Blue? (1988, McKenna)
- Electronic brains: Stories from the dawn of the computer age (2005, Hally)
- Beyond engineering: How society shapes technology (1999, Pool)
- Computing catastrophes (1983, Glass)
- Selection and use of terminals in on-line systems (1974, Pritchard)
Programming
- In the beginning… was the command line (1999, Stephenson) 📖
- Talking to computers: The strange world of software and the people who create it (1999, Pfeiffer)
- Programmers at Work: Interviews With 19 Programmers Who Shaped the Computer Industry (1989)
- 10 PRINT CHR$(20.5.5+RND(1)); (2012) 📖
- Computerization and controversy: Value conflicts and social choices
Computer coffee table books
- Digital Retro: The Evolution and Design of the Personal Computer (2005, Laing)
- Core Memory: A Visual Survey of Vintage Computers (2007, Richards)
- Computers: An Illustrated History (2002, Wurster)
- Inside the personal computer: An Illustrated Introduction in 3 Dimensions: A Pop-up Guide (1984, Gallagher)
- The joy of computers (1983, Laurie)
- Understanding computers: Input/Output (1986, Life Time Books) 📖
Specific computer history
- The Apollo Guidance Computer (2010)
- Digital Apollo: Human and machine in spaceflight (2011)
- Remington Corporation: The history and products of an American business machine company (Thomas A Russo)
- Bloomberg by Bloomberg (Bloomberg, d’uh, 2001)
- CrackBerry: True tales of BlackBerry use and abuse
- Minitel: Welcome to the internet (2017)
- The Friendly Orange Glow: The Untold Story of the PLATO System and the Dawn of Cyberculture (2017, Dear)
- ThinkPad: A different shade of blue (1999)
- How the ThinkPad changed the world, and is shaping the future (2017)
- A people’s history of computing in the United States (2018)
- The race for perfect: Inside the quest to design the ultimate portable computer (2009)
- Creative selection: Inside Apple’s design process during the golden age of Steve Jobs (2018, Kocienda)
- Piloting Palm: The inside story of Palm, Handspring, and the birth of the billion-dollar handheld industry (2002, Butter, Pogue)
- On-line Computing: Time-Shared Man-Computer Systems (1967, Karplus)
- Richard Sapper (2016, Olivares)
1980s personal computer history
- CoCo: The colorful history of Tandy’s underdog computer (2013)
- Priming the pump: How TRS-80 enthusiasts helped spark the PC revolution (2007)
- The Sinclair Story (1985, Dale) 📖
- The home computer wars (1984, Tomczyk) [about Osborne]
- Now the Chips Are Down: The BBC Micro (2016)
- Electronic dreams: How 1980s Britain learned to love the computer (2016, Lean)
- Sophistication & Simplicity: The life and times of the Apple II computer (2013)
- TV Typewriter Cookbook
- Blue Magic: The People, Power and Politics Behind the IBM Personal Computer (1988)
- Guide to Personal Computing [Digital]
- Early Home Computers (2013, Murrell)
- The microcomputer users handbook 1985
- The best of Creative Computing, Vol. 1
- The best of Creative Computing, Vol. 2
- The best of Byte, Vol. 1 (1977)
- The complete Historically Brewed (2014)
- The complete computer compendium (1984, Edelhart, Garr)
- Insights into personal computers
- A history of personal workstations
- The joy of computer communication (1984, Cook)
- My Computer Likes Me When I Speak in BASIC (1972, Albrecht) 📖
- The new Apple II user’s guide (2012)
1980s personal computer guides
- The users guide to small computers (Pournelle)
- Adventures in Microland (Pournelle)
- The personal computer in business book (McWilliams)
- The personal computer book (McWilliams)
- They all laughed when I sat down at the computer and other true tales of one man’s struggle with personal computing (1985, Sandberg-Diment)
- Without me you’re nothing: The essential guide to home computers (1981, Herbert)
- Electronic Life: How to think about computers (1983, Crichton)
- The home computer book: A complete guide for beginners (1978, Buckwalter)
Word processors
- Writing with a word processor (1983, Zinsser)
- The word processing book: A short course in computer literacy (1983, McWilliams)
- The writer and the word processor (1984, Hammond)
- A WordStar Survivor’s Guide to WordPerfect
- Word processing and beyond (1983, Stern)
- AlmostPerfect: How a bunch of regular guys built WordPerfect Corporation (1994) 📖
- Introduction to WordStar (1980)
- Word processing: First step to the office of the future? (1983, Curley)
- Data and word processing careers (2002, Munday)
- Word processing buyer’s guide (1983, Naiman)
- Word processing (1974, Anderson/Trotter)
- Improve your writing with word processing (1984, Noble)
- Choosing a word processor (1982, Good)
- IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 28/4 [word processing issue]
- Electronic, memory, and storage typewriters 📖
- The Compleat MT/ST Operator 📖
- Word processing and information systems: A practical approach to concepts (1983, Popyk)
- Word processing: Machine transcription (1981) 📖
- Copy processing: Second Edition (1982) 📖
- The definitive word-processing book: For anyone who works with words (1984, Price/Urban)
Gender issues
- Woman’s place is at the typewriter (1982)
- The women’s computer literacy handbook (1985, Brecher)
- 1993 handbook on women workers: trends & issues
- Mechanical brides: Women and machines from home to office (1997, Lupton)
- Women’s work, 1840–1940 (1995)
- Beyond the typewriter: Gender, class, and the origins of modern american office work, 1900–1930 (1992, Strom)
- Gendered by design? Information technology and office systems (1993, Green, Owen, Pain)
- Windows on the workplace (2004, Greenbaum)
- How to be a super-secretary (1945, 1951, 1962) [Remington Rand brochure] 📖
- Women for hire: A study of the female office worker (1979, McNally)
- Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing (2017, Hicks)
Office work
- Cubed: A Secret History of the Workplace (2014, Saval)
- Office Collectibles: 100 years of business technology (2000, Thomas A Russo)
- The electronic sweatshop: How Computers are Transforming the Office of the Future (1988, Garson)
- The American Digest Of Business Machines 📖
- Designing the automated office (1984)
- General office practice: Third edition (1968)
Legal issues
- Legal battles that shaped the computer industry (1999, Graham)
- Winners, Losers & Microsoft: Competition and Antitrust in High Technology (2001)
Crime
- Questioned documents (1910, Osborn)
- Scientific Examination of Questioned Documents: Revised Edition (1992, Hilton)
- Stolen typewriters (Brown)
- Stolen typewriters 2 (Brown)
Keyboard layouts
- The Dvorak Keyboard (1986, Cassingham)
- A concise history of the QWERTY keyboard and touch typing (Russo)
- The Myth of QWERTY [a book in Japanese]
- The economics of QWERTY: History, Theory, Policy (2002)
- Mastering the Dynamics of Innovation (1996)
- An experiment in relearning typewriting 📖
- A Comparison Of The Typewriting Achievements Of Students Trained On Typewriting Keyboards 📖
- Keyboard Retraining: Qwerty To Dvorak 📖
- Experience In Retraining On The Dvorak Keyboard 📖
Alphabet and code
- Shady characters: The secret life of punctuation, symbols, and other typographical marks (2013, Houston)
- Alpha beta: How 26 letters shaped the Western world (2001, Man)
- Coded character sets: History and development (1979)
- Quirky qwerty: The story of the keyboard @ your fingertips (2001)
Cryptography
- Battle of wits: The complete story of codebreaking in World War II (Budiansky)
- Enigma: The battle for the code (Sebag-Montefiore)
- The Codebreakers: The comprehensive history of secret communication from ancient times to the Internet (1996, Kahn)
- Code Breakers: The inside story of Bletchley Park (Hinsley/Stripp)
International/Non-American typing
- The Chinese typewriter: A history (2017, Mullaney)
- The Chinese language: Fact and fantasy (1986)
- Reminisces Of Twelve Decades Of Service To Siam 1860–1936 📖
- Merchant of the alphabets
- Ethnic variables in human factors engineering (1975)
- Sound and script in Chinese diaspora (2010, Tsu)
- An introduction to Chinese, Japanese, and Korean computing (1991, Huang)
- Understanding Japanese Information Processing (1993)
- With Great Truth & Regard: The Story of the Typewriter in India (2016)
- The language barrier: Beasts and men (1968)
- Your computer is on fire (2021)
Product design
- Computer (2010, Atkinson)
- Delete: A Design History of Computer Vapourware (2013, Atkinson)
- Designing interactions (2007, Moggridge)
- Olivetti: A study of the corporate management of design (1990, Kicherer)
- The Interface: IBM and the transformation of corporate design (2011)
- Tools: Extending our reach (2015)
- Machine beauty: Elegance and the heart of technology (1998, Gelernter)
- Keep it simple: The early design years of Apple (2014, Esslinger)
User interface design
- Bootstrapping: Douglas Engelbart, Coevolution, and the Origins of Personal Computing (2000)
- Tog on Interface (1992)
- Design of man-computer dialogues (1973)
- The Humane Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems (2000, Raskin)
- The elements of friendly software design (1994, Heckel)
- User interface design for computer systems (1988, Rubin)
- Power button: A history of please, panic, and the politics of pushing (2018, Plotnick)
User interface guidelines
- NeXTSTEP user interface guidelines
- Amiga user interface style guide
- Windows Interface Guidelines for Software Design
- Newton user interface guidelines
- Apple Human Interface Guidelines: The Apple Desktop Interface
- PenPoint programming
Ergonomics and RSI
- Ergonomics in computerized offices (1986, Grandjean)
- Ergonomics and health in modern offices (Grandjean)
- Ergonomic aspects of visual display terminals (Grandjean, Vigliani)
- Fitting the task to the man: An ergonomic approach (1980, Grandjean)
- It’s not a Carpal Tunnel Syndrome! RSI Theory and therapy for computer professionals (2001)
- Pascarelli’s complete guide to repetitive strain injury (2004, Pascarelli)
- Repetitive Strain Injury: Personal story and treatment options (2015, Conrad)
- Constructing RSI: Belief and desire (2001, Lucire)
- Beyond biomechanics: Psychosocial aspects of musculoskeletal disorders in office work
- Visual display terminals: A manual covering ergonomics, workplace design, health and safety, task organization (Cakir, Hart, Stewart)
- Visual display terminals: Usability issues and health concerns (Bennett, Case, Sandelin, Smith)
- Office hazards: How your job can make you sick (1982, Makower)
- Human factors in engineering and design (7th edition, Sanders and McCormick)
- Health hazards of VDTs? (1984, Pearce)
- Office ergonomics (Kroemer, Kroemer)
- The human side of information processing (Andersen)
- Why things bite back: Technology and the revenge of unintended consequences (Tenner)
- Input devices (Sherr) 📖
- Human engineering guide to equipment design
- Human dimension & interior space
- Zap! How your computer can hurt you — and what you can do about it (1994, Sellers)
- Designing the automated office (1984, Pulgram, Stonis)
- Human performance engineering: A guide for system designers (1982, Bailey)
Psychology and physiology
- Motor control and learning
- The Hand: How Its Use Shapes the Brain, Language, and Human Culture (1999)
- The intimate machine: Close encounters with computers and robots (Frude) 📖
- Phenomenology of Perception (1945, Merleau-Ponty) 📖
- Aids for the severely handicapped (1974, Copeland)
Art
- Typewriter art: A modern anthology (2014)
- The art of typewriting (2015)
- Artyping (1940, Nelson) 📖
- Artyping: Second edition (1962, Nelson) 📖
- Artyping: Third edition (1974, Nelson) 📖
- Art typing (1962, Krevolin) 📖
- Typewriter art (1978, Carlinsky) 📖
- Typewriter art (1975, Riddell) 📖
- Fun with your typewriter (1956, Roemer) 📖
- 50 typing picture projects (1980, Nichols)
- A treatise on ornamental typewriting (1938, Flanagan) 📖
- Typewriter mystery games (many editions, Nelson) 📖
- Typrinting (1945, Nelson) 📖
- Bob Neill’s book of typewriter art (1982)
- Bob Neill’s second book of typewriter art (1984) 📖
- Clean Sails (Morin, type art)
- Notes from a public typewriter (2018)
- Into metal topless: Typewriter art (2015)
- Fun With Basic Keyboard Graphics 📖
- How To Make “Typeys” 📖
Poetry
- Chasers of the light: Poems from the typewriter series (Gregson)
- Typewriter rodeo: Real people, real stories, custom poems (2018)
- The Selectric Poems (1983, Soules)
Typesetting + typography
- History of the Linotype company (2014, Romano)
- History of the phototypesetting era (2014, Romano)
- Machine Writing and Typesetting: The Story of Sholes and Mergenthaler and the Invention of the Typewriter and the Linotype (1986, Romano)
- Linotype Keyboard Operation
- Ottmar Mergenthaler and the printing revolution
- The Swifts: Printers in the Age of Typesetting Races (2003, Rumble)
- Handbook of Computer-Aided Composition (1980, Phillips)
- Computer peripherals and typesetting (Phillips)
- Merchant of Alphabets (Orcutt)
- The world of digital typesetting (1984, Seybold)
- Footnotes #A
- Type design for typewriters: Olivetti (2015, Ramos) 📖
- Handbook of composition input 📖
- Fundamentals Of Modern Photo-Composition 📖
Telegraph + telephone
- Early electrical communication (1964, Marland)
- The electric telegraph: An historical anthology
- Exploding the phone (2014)
- The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood (2012, Gleick)
- America Calling: A social history of the telephone to 1940
- The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century’s On-line Pioneers (1998)
- The American telegrapher
- My Sisters Telegraphic: Women in the Telegraph Office, 1846–1950 (Jepsen)
- Teletypewriter Fundamentals Handbook 📖
- Telegram! Modern history as told through more than 400 witty, poignant, and revealing telegrams
Calculating and data processing
- Stretching man’s mind: A history of data processing (1975, Harmon)
- Total to date (Burroughs)
- Applied mechanical arithmetic as practiced on the comptometer (1914, Felt & Tarrant) 📖
- Data processing in 1980–1985
- Punched-Card Systems and the Early Information Explosion, 1880–1945 (2009)
- Practical applications of the punched card method in colleges and universities (1935) 📖
- The development of punch card tabulation in the Bureau of the Census 1890–1940 (1965)
Personal
- Talk’s Body: A Meditation between Two Keyboards (1980, Sudnow)
- Typewriter Battallion: Dramatic front-line dispatches from World War II (Stenbuck)
- Typewriter Man: Tales of WWII
- The Army Writer: A Guide To Military Writing (1946/1951, Klein)
- The story of my typewriter (2002, Auster, Messer)
- Paul Auster’s Writing Machine: A Thing to Write With (2014)
Technical
- Peter Norton’s Programmer’s Guide to the IBM PC
- The Selectric™ Interface: A Hands-on Approach (George Young)
- Audio-typing and electric typewriters (1964)
- Mechanical Devices Of The Typewriter 📖
- An Investigation Of The Physical Mechanisms Of The Remington, Royal, Underwood, And Smith-Corona Standard Typewriters 📖
Dictionaries
- The typewriting dictionary
- The dictionary of typewriting
- The illustrated computer dictionary
- The new hacker’s dictionary
Humour/Anecdotes
- Digital Deli: The Comprehensive, User-Lovable Menu of Computer Lore, Culture, Lifestyles and Fancy (1984)
- The devouring fungus (1990)
- The colossal computer cartoon book
- Esc: 400 years of computer humor (2008)
- What’s so funny about computers? (1983)
- PC Roadkill (1995)
- The McWilliams II Word Processor instruction manual (1983) 📖
- MAD Magazine (issues 73, 95, 268)
- Esc: 400 years of computer humor
Videogames and keyboards
- Gaming the iron curtain (2018)
- Joysticks: Eine illustriere Geschichte der Game-Controller 1972–2004
- The game console: A photographic history from Atari to XBox (2018, Amos)
Kids
Typewriting education
- Typewriting behavior (1936, Dvorak, Merrick, Dealey, Ford)
- An experimental study of the educational influences of the typewriter in the elementary school classroom (1932, Wood and Freeman) 📖
- A graphic and concise history of educational teaching devices, toys and novelties (Russo)
- Acquisition of typewriting skills (West)
- Philosophy and psychology of teaching typewriting (Russon, Wanous)
- Cognitive aspects of skilled typewriting (1983, Cooper)
- Learning to typewrite: With a discussion of the psychology & pedagogy of skill (1925, Book)
- Techniques of teaching typewriting (1960, Clem) 📖
- The psychology of skill: With special reference to its acquisition in typewriting (1908, Book) 📖
- Methods of teaching typewriting (1919, SoRelle) 📖
- Typewriting: A mastery approach for IBM “Selectric” typewriters (1978, Mach, Mitchell, LaBarre) 📖
- Stylebook for typists (Nelson) 📖
- The Effect Of Typewriting On Seventh Grade Students Ability To Recognize Composition Errors 📖
- The History Of Touch Typewriting (1900) 📖
Touch typing manuals
- Humphrey’s Manual of Type Writing, Business Letter-Writer, and exercises for phonographic practice (1887) 📖
- Barnes’ Complete Caligraph instructor or how to become expert in typewriting (1890) 📖
- Barnes’ How to become expert in typewriting: a complete instructor, designed expecially for the Remington typewriter (1890) 📖
- A Manual of the Typewriter: A Practical Guide to Commercial, Literary, Legal, Dramatic And All Classes Of Typewriting Work (1893) 📖
- Barnes’ Complete Typewriting Instructor: Remington / How to become expert in typewriting (1899)
- Touch Art or Practical Typewriting by the All-Finger Method, Which Leads to Operation by Touch (1900, Torrey, fourth edition) 📖
- Modern typewriting and manual of office procedure (1903?, second edition)
- Barnes’ Complete Typewriting Instructor: Remington / How to become expert in typewriting (1907)
- Typists’ guide: From sight to touch (1912, Smith) 📖
- From sight to touch (1904, Kennedy)
- Modern typewriting and manual of office procedure (1917, ninth edition)
- Home instruction coure in touch typewriting (Crooks/Pitman) (1920s?)
- Seven speed secrets of expert typing (1921, third edition)
- 20th Century Typewriting: Complete (1933, second edition)
- College Typewriting (with personal problems) (1941, third edition)
- 20th Century Typewriting: Complete (1947, fifth edition)
- Gregg Typing: New Series, one year course (1953, Rowe/Lloyd)
- Gregg Typing: New Series, complete course (1953, Rowe/Lloyd)
- Pitman’s keyboard mastery course (1955)
- Smith-Corona Ten-day Touch Typing Course (1958)
- Smith-Corona 10-day touch typing course (1958)
- Typing is easy! (1958?, Saksvig)
- The pivot keyboard course (1964, Crooks)
- 20th Century Typewriting (1965, first British edition)
- Typewriting techniques and short cuts with 10-minute timed writings, third edition (1966) 📖
- 20th Century Typewriting: Complete, ninth edition (1967)
- Touch Typing in Ten Lessons (1963, 1973 printing)
- College Typewriting: Complete (1975, ninth edition)
- Touch typing in 10 lessons: The famous Ben’Ary method (1945/63, 1978 printing) 📖
- Typing for everyone (Levine, 1983)
- Gregg College Typing, Series 5: Typing 75 Kit 1: Basic (1984)
- Smith-Corona Ten Day Keyboarding/Touch Typing Course (1980s?)
- Step-by-step keyboarding on the personal computer (1984)
- Touch typing made simple (1985, Marks) 📖
- Touch Typing in Ten Lessons (1963, illustrations from 1989)
- Dr. Fry’s Computer Keyboarding for Beginners (2000)
- Touch typing in ten hours (2002, Dobson)
- Fundamental Keyboarding Skills (2008)
- Touch typing in 10 hours (2015)
- Der Fuhrer Zum Erfolg: Maschinenschreiben 📖
- My Typewriter And I 📖
- Rational Typewriting: Revised Edition 📖
- The Van Sant System Of Touch Typewriting For Smith Premier (1902) 📖
- The Van Sant System Of Touch Typewriting (Abridged Edition) For L C Smith And Corona Typewriters (1937) 📖
- The Seven Keys To Better Faster Typing (1962) 📖
- Keyboarding for the Christian School (2006)
- Tips to Typists, from Smith-Corona (?)
- Ring ’N Key: Ideal way to prepare for the world of computers (1987, 3rd ed.)
- Degan’s manual of natural touch and speed typewriting (1919)
- Learn to Type: Touch typing with the Tuch-Rite typing course (?) — LP and a special cardboard helper
Touch typing: Calculators
- Office machines course: Adding and calculating machines (1942)
- Touch operation of the electronic calculator: A brief course (1985)
- Ten-key touch system on modern calculators, second edition (2002)
Fiction
Related literature
- Mother Night (Vonnegut)
- The roving mind (Asimov)
- The adventures of Sherlock Holmes
- Player Piano (Vonnegut)
- Informed Sources (Willard Bain)
Related movies
- California Typewriter (2016, documentary)
- For the record: A court reporting documentary (2018)
- Populaire (2012)
- 9 to 5 (1980)
- The Shocking Miss Pilgrim (1947)
- A Place of Truth (2013, Rudich)
- The Chinese typewriter (1979, TV movie)