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Should I get rid of the typewriter?
Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2018 5:34 pm
by PaulaO
I'm a hospital librarian. My entire collection is electronic. However, I still have a typewriter shoved under a cart. It's a holdover from the days of manually filling out interlibrary loan forms and typing book cards and labels. I haven't turned it on in years so I don't even know if it works. I do believe it is the only typewriter in the hospital. It looks so forlorn and antiquated. Do I pitch it??
Re: Should I get rid of the typewriter?
Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2018 7:19 pm
by Srhorselady
Yep! Unless you want to keep it as a future antique, says the retired public library librarian who got rid of her last typewriter 20 years ago.
Re: Should I get rid of the typewriter?
Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2018 10:02 pm
by texsuze
I say 'nope', keep the antique. Ralph Nader still uses a typewriter
. One day you can show all the plugged-in, yet disconnected upstarts how things used to be and how folks still survived and thrived even with these primitive communication tools!
Re: Should I get rid of the typewriter?
Posted: Sat Sep 08, 2018 1:34 am
by Koolkat
Send it to Tom Hanks. . . . (click on blue arrow, upper left):
https://www.npr.org/2017/10/16/55763621 ... about-them
Re: Should I get rid of the typewriter?
Posted: Sat Sep 08, 2018 3:51 am
by Moutaineer
If it's a manual, keep it! I'll bet it's an electric typewriter, however, and therefore will be no good when Armageddon strikes anyway...
Re: Should I get rid of the typewriter?
Posted: Sat Sep 08, 2018 1:11 pm
by Chisamba
I bought and started reading it lol
Re: Should I get rid of the typewriter?
Posted: Sat Sep 08, 2018 1:24 pm
by acheyarcher
I forgot about this book. I will have to put it on my list again
I can still remember our first typewriter, probably bought at Goodwill in the late 40s.