Script And Scribble: The Rise And Fall Of Handwriting (2009) - Plot & Excerpts
Excellent, comprehensive history of handwriting with plenty of images. There was a terrible formatting issue in my library copy that left several pages totally incomprehensible, and fouled up quite a few footnotes. To the point where it was hugely distracting and I almost abandoned the book. The end chapter,which as a teacher I was most interested in learning more about as it details handwriting today, just turned into a parochial biddy's plea for comprehensive handwriting instruction. She talked to a whopping one teacher and makes sweeping generalization about everyone else, including a statement that young, hip teachers just want their kids to know how to type.If you were to read this book, I'd check on the format of the first two chapters and skip e last one. Godspeed. I have atrocious handwriting, and yet I loved this book about the development of handwriting through the ages, and its (supposed) disappearance in the age of keyboarding. I agree with the author's suggestion that a hand-written letter will never become merely an artifact of the distant past, though it may continue to become more and more rare as time goes on. I even started using some of the specific tips on improving my handwriting, but I would not go so far as to claim that my handwriting is noticeably improved.
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Saw this in a Bas Bleu catalog and thought it looked interesting.
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