Bibliography

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

• Click, clack, moo: Cows that type (2000)

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

• Uncommon type: Some stories (2017, Hanks)
• Escapements: Typewritten Tales from Post-Digital Worlds (2019)
• Paradigm Shifts: Typewritten Tales of Digital Collapse (2019)

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)

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