Book Oven pal Neil Gorman wrote an open letter to the reading public:
Dear Reading Public,
I have said this again and again, and now I’m going to say it again. I honestly don’t know why I keep saying it over and over, maybe I think that if I say it (or write it, podcast it, email [...]
Neil Gorman has another great podcast up: Text Edit #3, about books and sleep.
[Guest post from Neil Gorman]
I have trouble sleeping. Often the thing that has keeps me up is some Idea, or a group of Ideas, that will not stop making a racket inside my skull. There have been so many times in my life when I was so tired and I wanted to fall asleep so [...]
Friend of Book Oven Neil Gorman put voice to a lot of the stuff we’ve been discussing here on the Book Oven Blog. Read and listen here. Great stuff (not just because he says nice things about the Book Oven).
Not sure the model number, but here is a beautiful Blickensderfer, designed by George C. Blickensderfer, of Connecticut. His typewriters were much smaller and lighter than other typewriters, made of 250 parts compared with 2,500 for standard models. He also used the DHIATENSOR keyboard layout (not QWERTY) to avoid typebar jamming. Blickensderfer made the [...]
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