"In most museums, cataloguing is done by curators who are hunt-and-peck typists," she said.

Hunt-and-peck typists who feel inadequate because they are not proficient at touch typing may now have something to be smug about.

Typing of the Dead: Though a lifelong and perhaps intractable hunt-and-peck typist, I occasionally resolve to teach myself touch-typing once and for all; it was during one of these misguided bouts of self-improvement that I picked up The Typing of the Dead.