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I started writing as a child and never stopped. I’ve always been interested in what makes things tick and how to explain that. That led to a career as a technology journalist and how-to article and book author. I’ve written dozens of books over my career in some combination of the two.

In the 2010s, I started publish a series of book that combined printing and type history and technology in a variety of ways. These titles include Not To Put Too Fine a Point on It, a collection of essays and reporting; London Kerning, a look at two magnificent London printing collections and the city’s typographical history; Six Centuries of Type & Printing; and How Comics Were Made, a heavily visual history of the production and reproduction of newspaper com ...more

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	Take Control of Working from Home Temporarily 3.65 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 2020	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	How Comics Were Made 4.56 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2024	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Five-Star Apps: The Best iPhone and iPad Apps for Work and Play 3.10 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2010 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	How Comics Are Made: A Visual History from the Drawing Board to the Printed Page 4.46 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2024 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Magazine: The Book 3.79 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2014 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Six Centuries of Type & Printing 3.90 avg rating — 10 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Take Control of BBEdit 4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2012 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	London Kerning 4.13 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2018 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Take Control of Your M-Series Mac 4.13 avg rating — 8 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Take Control of Your Apple Wi-Fi Network 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Big Chicken: The Incredible Story of How Antibiotics Created Modern Agriculture and Changed the Way the World Eats

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The Intimacy of Paper in Early and Nineteenth-Century American Literature (Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book)

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Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work

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Glenn Fleishman liked Raquel's review of How Comics Are Made: A Visual History from the Drawing Board to the Printed Page: "If you’ve ever been captivated by the Sunday funnies or marvelled at the clever punchline of a comic strip, How Comics Are Made is your backstage pass to the magic behind the panels. Glenn Fleishman offers an incredibly informative and visually capti" Read more of this review »
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Glenn Fleishman liked Theediscerning's review of How Comics Are Made: A Visual History from the Drawing Board to the Printed Page: "A superlative read – for those who want it – this takes us through the world of the funnies – the American newspaper comic strip, not from the stories they told or the people who wrote and drew them, so much, but from the point of view of the technol" Read more of this review »
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Impossible to describe. Unique narrative structure. I can only be delighted to have read it even though I would be challenged to explain it. If you like Cloud Atlas, Rakesfall is a much more intense version of that without the chronological structure ...more
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“This man is the bee's knees, Arthur, he is the wasp's nipples. He is, I would go so far as to say, the entire set of erogenous zones of every major flying insect of the Western world.”
― Douglas Adams, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

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“He visited me in the Stanford hospital twice during the weeks when I was recovering”
― Brent Schlender, Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader

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― Brent Schlender, Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader

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