(via @bookninja) Umberto Eco dates the decline of handwriting back to the invention of the ballpoint pen rather than the computer. He also asks the question: “Why should we regret the passing of good handwriting? I think this is an interesting question especially now that everyone communicates via email and that even writers hardly ever pen their works (or more than a chapter or two). I do like to handwrite when I’m writing a first draft but I always type things up prior to r