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Personal computers may have replaced the typewriter in most homes and offices, but the venerable writing machine is currently staging a comeback. From portable models that hipsters are snapping up in Urban Outfitters to Tom Hanks's bestselling app that recreates the manual experience on a tablet, the typewriter has never been so hot. This celebration of the typewriter covers what a platen knob is, why QUERTY won out over other arrangements of keys, which authors loved (or loathed) their typewriters, and much more.A gift book with yellowed paper and typewriter fonts for a cool vintage lookTimeline of the typewriter features key modelsForeword by Paul Schweitzer of Gramercy Typewriter Co.