Only a little over an hour later, I had all 376 pages photographed. I even took photos of white pieces of paper to see where the shadows were, and used it as a mask to fix uneven lights in the library.pic.twitter.com/MJ1LDTwCWl
Writing a book about the history of keyboards: http://aresluna.org/shift-happens · Design manager @figmadesign · Typographer · Occasional speaker · He/him
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Only a little over an hour later, I had all 376 pages photographed. I even took photos of white pieces of paper to see where the shadows were, and used it as a mask to fix uneven lights in the library.pic.twitter.com/MJ1LDTwCWl
And now five years of Royal Standard – 50,000+ words – are on Internet Archive for anyone to read: https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22Royal+Typewriter+Company%2C+Inc.%22 … (Sure, this is not the best quality possible, but much better than nothing – particularly since I also OCR’ed all the text, making it searchable.)
I love feeling like a good historian/preservationist! And there are so many tiny things there that mean a lot, for example this “Royal progress in Poland”: https://archive.org/details/the-royal-standard-1924-9/page/n3 …
(I know I haven’t sent many book updates recently, but I’ve been working hard on the typesetting and particularly visuals. Over 200 photos are already in the book, and I’m proud of many of them that I found, and some that I took. My goal is to send a newsletter within days!)
In the meantime, please enjoy this photo of an awesome Typewriter Car.pic.twitter.com/qqoPOCVegv
Preparing for (tomorrow’s?) newsletter!pic.twitter.com/e4gqfrvJoJ
A portrait of a person slowly losing their mind in the infinite number of typesetting details.pic.twitter.com/4jAJM91Svc
Four years ago, I wrote a Medium post about the Turkish typewriter. I wonder if without that post – and the positive reception to it – I would’ve ever embarked on my book project. I’m taking photos of that typewriter for the book today, and it feels like meeting a patron saint.pic.twitter.com/TsNRoBRYX1
My newsletter is at 992 subscribers now – so close to 1,000!!! (Please sign up for fun keyboard stories, updates on book production, previews, and be the first to know when the book is ready!)https://www.getrevue.co/profile/shift-happens/ …
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