by Richard Polt | Aug 25, 2026 | Book review
Author Ross Dunbar kindly sent me a copy of Click Clack Boom, the first in his Blackjack Harrigan Files series. Harrigan is an intelligence officer who specializes in finding unusual people who are just right for a military challenge. In this case it’s Hank...
by Richard Polt | Aug 22, 2026 | Book review
The Complete Manufacturing Process of a Vintage Typewriter: Archival Engineering Reconstruction—1930–1938 is a 73-page book published in 2025 by Type Space in Portland, Oregon. Type Space is a beautiful shop and cultural center run by Antony Valoppi with the...
by Richard Polt | Aug 15, 2025 | Book review
The other day, this classic Inter-Department Delivery envelope showed up in my mail.Freddy and I were quite curious.Inside was the Thaxton Research Institute Report on Sidewalks, Residential Concrete Construction and Extra-Dimensional Combat in Post-War Memphis,...
by Richard Polt | Aug 11, 2025 | Book review
Cover illustration by Mitch Green I’ve known Gene Gazelka through Instagram and the typosphere for several years now. He uses a Smith-Corona portable and a Royal standard to write fiction, poetry, and poetic snippets that get posted around town, making life a bit...
by Richard Polt | Feb 10, 2025 | Book review
I was invited by Shepherd — a book lovers’ platform that’s an independent alternative to the Amazon-owned Goodreads — to recommend some of my favorite books that complement The Typewriter Revolution. This was a fun assignment. Longtime readers of this blog...
by Richard Polt | Oct 29, 2020 | Book review, Hispano-Olivetti, Olivetti, repair
I’ve found the perfect go-with for my Hispano-Olivetti M40.The second edition of La reparación de máquinas de escribir, by Mateo Marín Burgos, was published in Madrid in 1936, just at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. The subtitle promises that...
