Confession: When I was a teenager, I asked for a four-drawer black file cabinet for my birthday. There’s just something alluring about putting order to your paper, as if your life will follow.

September 24, 2009 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google Whether your filing system has gotten away from you or it was never really under control to begin with, you ...

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Ms. Paul is the editor of the Book Review and the author, most recently, of “100 Things We’ve Lost to the Internet.” Remember filing cabinets? Those lumbering, clattering towers of drawers stuffed ...