You know a typewriter is being used as flimsy filler decoration when it’s sitting on a shelf and simultaneously serving as a book support.
A real writer’s typewriter is free and clear so that the carriage can move its full length.
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You know a typewriter is being used as flimsy filler decoration when it’s sitting on a shelf and simultaneously serving as a book support.
A real writer’s typewriter is free and clear so that the carriage can move its full length.
You know a typewriter is being used as flimsy filler decoration when it’s sitting on a shelf and simultaneously serving as a book support.
A real writer’s typewriter is free and clear so that the carriage can move its full length.
@chrisaldrich Can a working typewriter be rigged to be stowable like a sewing machine in a pivot topped cabinet? Or is that too eccentric and one should just get a roll-top desk?
And you're right, that typewriter in the conversation background bookcase looks decorative rather than deployable.
Early and mid-century desk manufacturers had both flip top desks and cabinet door/spring loaded platform desks for large standard typewriters so that you could hide them away when not in use. Examples:
I’ve even seen people use sewing machine desks for typing: https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1oij547/i_turned_an_old_sewing_table_into_a_typing_desk/