Book on word processing history: Track Changes by Matthew Kirschenbaum

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came across this book.

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Matthew G. Kirschenbaum, Track Changes: A Literary History of Word Processing. The Belknap Press of
Harvard University Press, 2016, xvi+344 pp. Hardcover, US$29.95. ISBN 978-0674417076.

from a review in Tugboat, the TeX typesetting user group.
"In the Acknowledgments section of Matthew Kirschenbaums Track Changes, he notes that in
December 2011 he gave a lecture on his research at the New York Public Library, and a New York Times
reporter wrote about his interest in the history of word processing.1 The resulting burst of
publicity [flooded his inbox] with tips, anecdotes, contacts, and suggestions. Much of this helped
the author develop his book; and, although the book is now published, the author says that this is
still very much an active project, and Id be grateful to hear from any readers who have additional
information.

The author is a professor in the English Department of the University of Maryland who is a devoted
scholar of all things digital and literary."

...its a collection of stories about hundreds of individual authors. Although it has 80 pages of
notes and the chapter titles appear to be working on moving along an academic thesis, the book is
easy and fun to read."

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Slightly more incisive review in SHARP News--Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and
Publishing by Amy Hezel, Regis University.
A logorrheaic review by Peter Ward in infoculturejournal.org

There is a large list of links, discussions, sidebars in the publisher's web page http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674417076
with interviews, substantial reviews and so on, with the usual About This Book, About the Authors,
Reviews, Table of Contents pages.