• A Brief History of Typewriters
  Illustrated highlights.

• Typewriter Spotlights
  A writing machine gallery.
  

• Remington Portables
  More than you ever wanted to know about these little charmers.

• Typewriter Parts
  What to call the whatchamacallits.

• Writers and their Typewriters
  Authors' favorites, past and present.
  

• Are the Bush Documents Fakes?
  An analysis of a footnote to the 2004 presidential election.
  

• Frequently Asked Questions
  "What's my Woodstock worth?" and other inquiries.

• The Percy Smock Corner
  Resources for the typewriter collector.

• Basic Typewriter Restoration
  How to make it shine.

• Typewriter Manuals
  
The instructions you've been looking for.
• Publicly Displayed Typewriters
  Where to meet early writing machines in person.

• Typewriter Repair Shops
  Where to get it fixed.

• My Own Collection
  Writing machines I've amassed.

• Ten Most Wanted Typewriters
  An illustrated wish list.

• Reviving a Hammond 1
  The rebirth of an early gem.

• The Typewriter Mailing Lists
  Meet other fanatics.

• The Typewriter Revolution
  My book about typewriting in the 21st century.

• The Typewriter Revolution blog
  My typewritten blog about typewriting.
  

• Typewriter Fonts
  Make your computer write almost as beautifully as a typewriter.

• The Classic Typewriter Page Store
  Pictures of beautiful writing machines on all sorts of products.

• Typewriter Tributes
  Real writers tell us why manual typewriters are still the way to do it.

• Typology: A Phenomenology of Early Typewriters
  The metaphysical significance of writing machines.

• Typewriter-Related Links
  The excitement just keeps on going...

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