A 1938 photograph.

From an e-mail by an “industry insider”: “Long-term there’s no future in printed books.”

“[A] scrap of paper and a stub of a pencil are more preferable for philosophizing than typing the same words down.”

A Boston Globe article on young-adult letter-writers.

“To my mind, the design involves the same analog-to-digital mistake that Apple’s Notes app makes.”

“[A]s someone who remembers Eaton’s Corrasable Bond, the tedium of centering titles, the far greater tedium of retyping whole pages after dropping a line in transcription, and the sheer racket, I feel no nostalgia for the typewriter as an object of use.”

Low-tech teaching

The disappearing analog telephone call

Analog and digital time

Review of a book of artists' lists

Google Calendar doesn't compare

Voices in the wilderness, NYC

A Blackwing and legal pad man

No NYC White Pages?

Index cards, legal pads, a fountain pen

With a sample

Edward Tufte plans to repurpose Solari board as art

Train station technology, click click click

“I hate to sound like a Luddite, but this technology is a poor excuse of an academic tool,” said Aaron Horvath ’10, a student in Civil Society and Public Policy. “It’s clunky, slow and a real pain to operate.”

"A study published in the April issue of British Educational Research Journal found that 59 percent of students in a new survey reported that at least half of their lectures were boring, and that PowerPoint was one of the dullest methods they saw."

Firsts

Tech execs who eschew gadgets

Paper and pen, computer

Excerpts from Pnin, Pale Fire, and the Foreword to the screenplay of Lolita -- and two photos

Parker T-Ball Jotter, red ballpoint, Faber-Castell Uni-Ball, Montblanc, Pelkan: for National Handwriting Day

On the disadvantages of instant access to information

Dutch psychologist Christof van Nimwegen has written a dissertation arguing that pens and pencils are crucial in the development of creativity and intelligence.

Thoughts on a report from the Pew Internet and American Life Project

January 23

A Moleskine Pocket Planner!

20 uses for a Post-it Note

On the advantages of print

New York Times article on the survival of cassettes

On the superiority of analog design

For students, on the benefits of handwriting