Model-by-model buying advice, second-hand red flags, price benchmarks, and how to inspect a machine before your money leaves the table.
A travel typewriter is the one you actually pack. Weight, case, typing tolerance for hotel desks, and repair robustness matter more than typing feel. Here is how to choose.
The best first portable is the one you will still be typing on in six months. Here are four machines that consistently reward beginners and four that consistently disappoint them.
Two hundred dollars will not buy you a museum piece. It will buy you a reliable daily writer that keeps you in the hobby past the first month. Here are five specific models and where to look.
The seller is watching. The other customers are watching. You have ten minutes with a machine you may take home. Here is a routine that fits those constraints and misses nothing that would kill the deal at home.
One in seven typewriters shipped worldwide arrives damaged. The techniques that eliminate almost all of those failures are well known, cheap, and rarely used by amateur sellers. Here is what to demand.
A repainted machine with reproduction glass keys is not, in the collector's sense, the same object as an original. Neither seller nor market always makes the distinction. Here is how to make it yourself.