A simple feather had to be hardened, carved, and tested before it could write a single word. In this episode, a quill pen is ...

A.J. Jacobs has been writing with an old-fashioned quill for a year. He argues they allow for slower, more contemplative thinking. Writer A.J. Jacobs wrote his manuscript using a quill and ink, ...

Inside a futuristic building in central London, leather-bound tomes contain quill-and-ink records of vessels lost at sea over ...