My other half refuses to sit down at my computer any more because he can’t type using my keyboard. I guess, looking at this picture, I can understand why. I type so much, and probably a little too fast and too hard, with the tough fingernails I inherited from my mother, and the letters have worn off many of the keys. And this is the second keyboard I’ve been through in about a year.
I don’t usually notice because 95% of the time I touch type, but there are odd occasions where I find it difficult. If I’m trying to drink a cup of tea with one hand, for example, and need to type in a website address to read while I drink, then searching for a letter when not using both hands to type is quite tricky. I have to look away and then my fingers find their own way. I guess for someone who can’t touch type,
this keyboard would really be quite a challenge.
It’s not even old – maybe six or seven months. It’s wireless which I love, because I can move it around my desk to fit in with the piles of books or notepads that might otherwise get in the way, and I can easily hold it up high out of the way when my cats are playing around on my desk. It’s also super-ergonomic, which was weird at first but means my wrists don’t feel tired or sore at the end of the day. So I’m reluctant to change it back to the old non-wireless keyboard I still have sitting in my shelves, even if it does still have the letters on most of the keys. I guess if the punctuation marks start disappearing too, then I might have to give in. Until then, I’ll keep typing. Fading keyboards are just one of the curses us writers have to put up with, I suppose.
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Hahaha. Yeah, I’m always on laptops, so I can’t just switch the keyboard out. However, I can buy replacement keys, and have had to in the past.
But so far, even after a year and a half of “vigorous typing,” my MacBook’s letters are all intact. The only problem is that the most used ones have developed a shiny-ness that annoys me. At least once I day, I (carefully) wipe them off with hand sanitizer, which is a great grease/oil fighter.
But yeah, it’s weird stuff like this that you don’t think about until you’re a writer (or living with one).
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Ah, replacement keys, maybe I’ll have to look into that …