Paulo Coelho<br /> https://typewriterdatabase.com/typewriters.php?hunter_search=5539&collection_search=My+Collection
aka u/PauloType via https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1s4vndm/comment/ocqyr0r/
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- Mar 2026
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Some interesting typewriter hunters:<br /> - Joe Van Cleave<br /> - Richard Polt<br /> - Michael Hoehne<br /> - Robert Messenger - Ted Munk<br /> - Ian Brumfield - Sarah Everett (aka JustMyTypewriter) - Mei Travis<br /> - Currie Russell - Otto Koponen - Marcin Wichary<br /> - Martin Howard - James Grooms - Suzanne LaPierre - Chris Aldrich<br /> - Matt Watkins (Ignaciob) aka u/TC3Guy
Typewriter repair people: - Scott Connors<br /> - Elisa Makoon-Singh
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Matt Watkins (Ignaciob) on the typewriter database aka u/TC3Guy on Reddit are the same person<br /> via comment at https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1s4vndm/most_collected_typewriters_on_the_typewriter/
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David Kearby (aka D****2 on SGW) purchased this Underwood https://shopgoodwill.com/item/258398206
via https://www.facebook.com/groups/705152958470148/posts/1229591519359620/
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- Feb 2026
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I'm at eleven typewriters now, with ten in working order and one that is a toy. I gave two machines away for free, and I sold one to a workmate for the same amount of money that I spent on it. My intentions to acquire and keep them changed through the three years of me being into typewriters. It started with finding a broken SG1 in the trash at the side of the street that I was able to repair. Then I was looking for a use for it, because it had found a place in my heart. I found two other machines in working order, also in the trash at the side of the street, of which I am keeping one and I have one away because it wasn't my liking. I received one as a gift from my brother-in-law that was owned by his grandfather, which is a very nice machine that makes it easier to keep for sentimental reasons. Then there is another machine that once belonged to my long-gone grandfather, which I keep for sentimental reasons and its nice techno pica typeface. This list keeps going on. So, there's a mixed bouquet of reasons I make up to keep machines and why I just can't give that specific piece away. I know I'm a hoarder, but the size of the machines keeps me in certain limits. Is it consumerist? Well, yesn't. I must admit, I would love to own a chocolate script Olympia SM3, and yes, I do like to show off my four different typefaces. I am looking to find a sixties SM9 to find out what the fuss is about in comparison to my late seventies SM9. But on the other hand, nothing beats the satisfactory achievement of finishing another three pages letter for one of my daughters. I hope they will read my lines one day and hear their daddy's voice through the paper that I touched before them and the imprints that my muscles caused. It is a piece of me, turned into ink on paper, that remains. And it is some obsolete tech that I curated/used/liked/hoarded, that will probably go into steel recycling after I'm gone.
brief typewriter bio for u/andrebartels1977 at https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1r3udld/thoughts_on_the_hobby/?sort=new
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- Jan 2026
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Private library: Schröder's dream<br /> by [[Benjamin Quaderer]] in DIE ZEIT<br /> accessed on 2026-01-25T15:02:05
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According to a conservative estimate, Bruno Schröder's library contained around 70,000 books. Compared to the municipality's only public library, a two-room shop with 4,500 titles, Bruno Schröder's private library was almost sixteen times larger.
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There, the shelves are integrated into the sloping roof in such a way that the books line the entire interior surface of the roof. "Insulation," one of my conversation partners remarks, "that Robert Habeck would wish for in every house."
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According to an estimate by an antiquarian bookseller whom Renate Abeln guided through the bookshop, Bruno Schröder invested between 800,000 and one million euros in books over his lifetime.
A collection of almost 70,000 volumes in Mettingen, North Rhine-Westphalia.
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How typewriters are making a comeback<br /> by [[CNN]] on YouTube<br /> accessed on 2026-01-14T09:01:22
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- Dec 2025
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I've got a couple of typewriters I mean I guess you're collector once you have more than three right? I would say that that does count if you if you buy the same item. Yeah three that's probably collecting. Right. If you have two not so much, yeah. —Keanu Reeves on collecting 7:31
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- Nov 2025
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The Pencil Pages<br /> by [[Doug Martin]]<br /> accessed on 2025-11-09T09:27:11
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- Oct 2025
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Toronto shop thriving amid typewriter renaissance<br /> by [[John Vennavally-Rao]] for CTV News 2025-09-01 accessed on 2025-09-13T21:43:40
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- Aug 2025
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Ben Metzger<br /> https://www.benmetzger.com/
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- Jul 2025
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Restarting the Channel!<br /> by [[Will Davis]]
Restarting his typewriter-related channel because he's seen a bunch of of older typewriter collectors passing away.
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San Diego, California.
https://typewriterdatabase.com/typewriters.php?hunter_search=7870
GK Mandigo
also u/HumorPuzzleheaded407 <br /> with link via https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1m10qih/comment/n3hni2q/
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Typewriter collection of u/JoelBerger via https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1ltj1eh/comment/n1tszxi/
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- Jun 2025
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Reinier Verkleij, a typewriter collector, aka u/DonaldDutchie on reddit via https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1ljl9xq/fraktur_erika_2/ and uploading of https://typewriterdatabase.com/1915-erika-2.25838.typewriter with Fraktur typeface.
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- May 2025
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Keanu Reeves has a typewriter collection of 5 typewriters according to a Toronto Film Fest interview in 2013.
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"I collect vintage typewriters. I like the sound and feel of the keys. There's something satisfying about having a thought, then seeing it on the page."
Keanu Reeves via Keanu Reeves: 'I Worry That People Won't Like What I Do' by [[Cathryne Keller]] for Women's Health
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How many typewriters do you own? Currently, about 15.
In 2025, Alton Brown indicated that he owned 15 typewriters.
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Mike Rossi on antiques for the collector
For the inveterate collectors out there, I remember Mike Rossi's old TV show and recently saw he was dispensing advice about antiques, buying/selling, and collecting on his relatively new Instagram account: https://www.instagram.com/antiquesalley/
Others might appreciate his perspective on buying and selling of the secondary market of vintage pieces and antiques. While he doesn't specifically touch on typewriters (that I'm aware of) a lot of his pragmatic advice is broadly applicable.
Here's an interesting one to start with: https://www.instagram.com/antiquesalley/reel/DJSXLwPhMjH/
posted to https://reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1khupsb/mike_rossi_on_antiques_for_the_collector/
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<script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>Peter Doherty: “I have 40 typewriters and I’m not ashamed of it”<br><br>LISTEN @maryannehobbs : https://t.co/0Z9fvAYCM9 pic.twitter.com/OCaHtPqJ1N
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Peter Doherty: “I have 40 typewriters and I’m not ashamed of it”
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sk8rcruz 0 points1 point2 points 2 days ago (0 children)I’ll start by saying I love the database! This link is to my current collection but my sightings and formerly owned have been a lot of fun too.
r/sk8cruz = LaDonna Qualtieri https://typewriterdatabase.com/typewriters.php?hunter_search=6493&collection_search=My+Collection
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- Dec 2024
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https://www.reddit.com/user/Jbhusker/<br /> https://typewriterdatabase.com/typewriters.php?hunter_search=7197
same person based on direct message
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- Oct 2024
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u/AmsterdamAssassin typewriter collection https://old.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1fvj11a/my_current_collection_of_vintage_mechanical/
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The Four Hobbies, and Apparent Expertise by [[Marc Brooker]]
Most hobbies, sports, and areas of interest can be split into four quadrants by an individual's particular sub-interest along the lines of doing/discussing versus the activity/gear for the activity. Many people will self-select into one of the four at the expense of the other three and this can affect the type and tenor of communities around that particular activity.
Excellence in one area doesn't imply excellence in the others. "True" fanatics ought to attempt to excel in all four quadrants.
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- Apr 2024
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Confusion about what it means toown a book leads people to a falsereverence for paper, binding, and type—a respect for the physical thing—thecraft of the printer rather than thegenius of the author.
This sort of worship of objects extends to those who overbuy notebooks (or other stationery). It's nice to "own" them, but it's even more valuable to write your thoughts in them and use them as the tools they were meant to be.
cross-reference: https://hypothes.is/a/sSgxLMGoEe6j8ccyyMeDTw
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It's original purpose was definitely to create unique output but you can definitely use it for other reasons!
reply to u/chasemac_ at https://www.reddit.com/r/Zettelkasten/comments/19ep9rc/comment/kjempeu/
I'm curious from where you draw your "original purpose" claim? This presupposes having identified a zettelkasten progenitor who has clearly made such a statement. (If you're thinking Luhmann, you're missing the mark by centuries. And even if you're thinking Luhmann, where did he say this specifically?) While Konrad Gessner seems to have been an early progenitor in 1548, the broader idea goes much further back. Even in the early days of the commonplace book, the primary analogy was using them as "storehouses" for collecting treasure (thesaurus) aka knowledge or wisdom.
Even Luhmann's framing of his zettelkasten as his "second memory" was old by the time he wrote it:
In a short academic dissertation on the art of excerpts, Andreas Stübel described the card index as a ‘secondary and subsidiary memory’ (‘memoria secundaria and subsidiaria’), summing up in just three words the dilemma scholars had been struggling with for two centuries with respect to the use of commonplace books. As far as I know, Stübel was the first among contemporaries to speak of secondary memory. —Alberto Cevolini in “Where Does Niklas Luhmann’s Card Index Come From?” Erudition and the Republic of Letters 3, no. 4 (October 24, 2018): 390–420. https://doi.org/10.1163/24055069-00304002.
If we look even further back we read Seneca the Younger in Epistulae morales, writing positively about collecting with respect to classic rhetoric:
"We should follow, men say, the example of the bees, who flit about and cull the flowers that are suitable for producing honey, and then arrange and assort in their cells all that they have brought in;
Without a clear originator, I might suggest that historically the first purpose was for memory followed closely by learning and then accumulating wisdom and knowledge (sententiae). Using them for output only came much later.
Why is there so much bad ink in the zettelkasten space about about "collecting"? (a la the "collector's fallacy") If you collect nothing, you'll have nothing. You have to start somewhere. Collecting happens first before anything useful comes out of the enterprise. Where are all these "people [who] do nothing but boast about the amount of cards in their box"? I'm not seeing lots of evidence of them in fora or online certainly. Show us your collection of examples of those to back up the claim. Are there index card hoarders out there who honestly have tens of thousands of notes with absolutely no purpose? I suspect it's rare.
If you're a collector, collect away! Take solace in the words of historian Keith Thomas:
Unfortunately, such diverse topics as literacy, numeracy, gestures, jokes, sexual morality, personal cleanliness or the treatment of animals, though central to my concerns, are hard to pursue systematically. They can’t be investigated in a single archive or repository of information. Progress depends on building up a picture from a mass of casual and unpredictable references accumulated over a long period. That makes them unsuitable subjects for a doctoral thesis, which has to be completed in a few years. But they are just the thing for a lifetime’s reading. So when I read, I am looking out for material relating to several hundred different topics.
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Most of the time, people are not aware that there isn't only one, but four, garbage collectors. The four garbage collectors are—Serial, Parallel, Concurrent, and Garbage First (G1). We will see them in the following section. There are some third-party garbage collectors, such as Shenandoah. JVM HotSpot's default garbage collector is Parallel up to Java 8, while from Java 9, the default collector is Garbage First Garbage Collector (G1 GC). A Parallel garbage collector isn't best most of the time; however, it depends on our application requirements. For example, the Concurrent Mark Sweep (CMS) and G1 collectors cause less frequent GC pauses. But when they do cause a pause, the pause duration will most likely be longer than a pause caused by the Parallel collector. On the other hand, the Parallel collector usually achieves higher throughput for the same heap size.
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- May 2023
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My magic trick (having faced a similar dilemma with many lovely notebooks over the years) is to turn to the first double page and write in large lettersDON'T BE AFRAID TO MAKE YOUR MARK UPON LIFE'S PAGE.And just like that the new notebook spell is broken and the pen is free to write again.
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Unfortunately, such diverse topics as literacy, numeracy, gestures, jokes, sexual morality, personal cleanliness or the treatment of animals, though central to my concerns, are hard to pursue systematically. They can’t be investigated in a single archive or repository of information. Progress depends on building up a picture from a mass of casual and unpredictable references accumulated over a long period. That makes them unsuitable subjects for a doctoral thesis, which has to be completed in a few years. But they are just the thing for a lifetime’s reading. So when I read, I am looking out for material relating to several hundred different topics. Even so, I find that, as my interests change, I have to go back to sources I read long ago, with my new preoccupations in mind.
For a variety of topics and interests there are not archives of information that can be consulted or referenced. As a result one must slowly, but methodically collect this sort of information over a lifetime to be able to analyze it and build theses.
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Everything not saved will be lost.—Nintendo “Quit Screen” messag
Clever use of this quote. How can you do anything but love it?
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The largest pri-vate collections reached 3,000 or 4,500 volumes in the late sixteenth century and tens of thousands of volumes in the mid- eighteenth century. (Hans Sloan owned 45,000 books and 4,000 manuscripts at his death in 1753.)194
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