The other night, perched daintily on the edge of my metaphorical cups, I was suddenly gripped with a need to learn how records were kept before things like filing cabinets (invented in the 1890s), standardized spelling, or the written language itself. Unfortunately googling this is difficult, since all I keep finding are filing cabinets for sale or methods to track one's reading history.
Similar nonfiction books (in that they're about fairly mundane but vital things) that I've enjoyed are Women's Work by Elizabeth Wayland Barber and If Walls Could Talk by Lucy Worsley, so any suggestions in that vein would be magnificent.
by stabbitytuesday
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What about Index, A History of the by Dennis Duncan?
For the literal record *keeping* part, [The Book on the Bookshelf](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/95979.The_Book_on_the_Bookshelf) is interesting. It’s a history of how we’ve stored written works.