Spazmelda wrote:

There are quite a few different methods for 'binding' loose pages.  This would be if you have something you want to be a little fancier than 3 hole punch or something like that.  Maybe for a typed journal or one off book of poetry, something like that.   Most of them involve sewing with waxed thread or gluing.  If you google 'binding loose pages' you will find many tutorials.
 

Loose leaf sounds just right. As JoeV aptly describes it, it is random access versus serial access... or is it? :-) The curmudgeon in me just pointed out that a bound volume is random access since you can open it to any page you like immediately. But it's rewritable memory. To an extent. You take your page files and you can reorder them, add them and remove them. And when you write a really bad one, or tear one up or spill coffee on it, that's a page file fault. Page file faults go in the round file.

I like the idea of this crudely enforced level of editing - pencil marks and reordering of whole pages. When you are satisfied you have reached a milestone you can retype the whole thing. On a conventional fully editable word processor I tend to get caught up in trivialities of sentence structure and finally wind up over-editing by accidentally chopping sentences into ungrammatical fragments. The typed page/penciled corrections/reordered pages/retyping paradigm might just focus might just focus one on the big picture. <= that's just the kind of thing I was talking about. ;-)

fingertapper wrote:

I plan to use my typewriters to write short messages and to create emails to friends which are actually not text-based emails but imbedded pictures these short messages.

I did that for a period as well, typecasting emails to friends who would appreciate seeing something typed; however, the novelty was short lived. I found the mixed medium format diluted, even negated, what should have been a more tactile experience for the reader, so now I send less important emails the classic way, via snail mail.  

Sadly, most things just make more sense to do on a computer for me, so not a whole lot gets typed.  My kids actually use the typewriter a lot though - they do schoolwork on it, write stories, all sorts of things.

Speaking of which, recently I've been typing out my kids' excuse notes and other things they need to bring in with them to school.  There are probably a few people at their school who think our family is completely nuts, but so far they haven't mentioned it to us.