@ John Bresnik:
I used to carry around paper composition books during my college years and would write page after page of long hand. My right hand would get awfully sore and stiff. Then I got on the staff of the student newspaper, which gave me access to the world’s most important machine at that time: the IBM Correcting Selectric typewriter. I’d stay up all night typing stuff. Never did learn touch typing, though. I still use just one or two fingers on each hand and peck away at the keyboard. Today, many years later, I still have hardcover books of the kind sold by Borders Books with a couple hundred blank pages inside.