I suspect notes, draftwork for articles, and the like. Things where you don’t need to make a few thousand edits in the moment before moving on.
How did people write them 30 years ago?
I think they include “non-fiction” in that essays aren’t, generally, considered fiction. Blog posts? Longform non-government documents?
How does the keyboard feel?
I’d imagine you’d need to get all the relevant material together in physical form first. Which means you probably aren’t going to write in a coffee shop. My graduate advisor had entire filing cabinets filled with scientific papers that he had collected by going to the library and photocopying. And I’d imagine people in the humanities would even have it worse, as they generally cite from books rather than papers.
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One must develop a superior sense of dedication and single-mindedness to be able to ignore those pesky distractions. I wonder if anything new’s been posted on IO9…
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My sonnets are only 13 lines. Because I am a rebel.
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Of course you are.
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Sitting meditation really helped me with this. Then I convinced myself that I didn’t have time in the morning for it anymore. Now I rely mainly on the dedication part, plus deadline-induced surges of norepinephrine.
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I get 18 lines on mine using the smallest - but still perfectly readable - font size.
Decent enough quality for me:) Insane battery life, no need for a cloud backup and it’s sturdy & portable enough without folding the keyboard in half.
the simple design is awesome, but… maybe with some tilt to that screen. i think flat would be awkward if you sat the keyboard on your lap.
that is of course… until the words are beamed straight into our visual cortex.
just imagine long lines of undergraduates waiting for the copy machine because critical books couldn’t be removed from the library.
i myself wonder what it’s like for the kids these days. the public web seems walled from so many of the journals, and so many of the books seem yet still to be scanned. are people winding up with islands of information, and losing some of what is still out there to be found by hand?
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LOL I just watched Cronenberg’s Naked Lunch last night on HBO
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Let’s do it man. Just think of all the awesome things that could be done with a lowest-end computer-in-a-keyboard sold as a word processor.
Stretch goal: license the legendary WANG marque.
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Find a way to brand it WANG and I’ll find angels to throw money at you.
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I’ve considered this (though I found a much better price):
At least at the universities, they have access to a lot of journals as part of the libraries there. When I was in my doctoral program, I had access to dissertations and a lot of journals that the public doesn’t have.
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The public doesn’t have to jump through hoops for. Public Libraries tend to have access to much of this as well, however you have to log-in or go in.
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maybe as a bonus feature it could double as a regular bluetooth keyboard…
hmmm… where’s the kickstarter i can donate to? 
