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    1. Professor and poet Kenneth Goldsmith has spent the past 24 years transcribing manuscripts onto ultra-thin onion-skin paper, amassing a total of 750 to date, as part of his ‘Retyping a Library’ project.Find out why he finds digital so passé, via link in bio. DOP: @kalumkoCamera assistant: Rory WagnerInterview: @donnasalekEditor: Daniel FinnSenior creative producer: @valmessersiDigital director: @ellycparsons

      https://www.instagram.com/reel/DWAosAxjIRI/ via The World of Interiors

      Why in God's name would he choose the worst typewriter on the planet to effect this project?

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    1. Portable Typewriters Today - February 2015<br /> by [[Will Davis]] on 2015-02-10<br /> accessed on 2025-08-05T16:35:48

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    1. The 2023 Rover Typewriter: Worst Machine Ever? by [[Typewriter Chicago]]

      I know Michaels was carrying the We R Memory Keepers typewriter, but hadn't heard about Home Depot carrying them.

      Rover made by Shanghai Weilv Mechanism Company still making typewriters (bad quality control, plastic, poor alignment). These are variously rebadged as: - the Rover - the Royal Epoch - We R Memory Keepers (Michaels, Home Depot) - Royal Classic (metal shell) - Maplefield (Target, Walmart, Michaels) - The Oliver Typewriter Company

      Will Davis has determined that they're all based on the Olympia Carina.

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    1. Es gehört zwar unter Akademikern zum guten Ton, den Wert dieser Rankings herunterzuspielen, aber wenn man dort weit vorne rangiert – wie die beiden eidgenössischen Hochschulen in Zürich und Lausanne und überhaupt praktisch alle grossen Schweizer Universitäten –, ist man nur allzu gerne bereit, trotz aller Vorbehalte das eigene gute Abschneiden gebührend auszuschlachten.