Paper Let’s Talk About Tomoe River In August of 2017, I wrote a blog post talking about how I wanted to highlight some of the wild, wacky, and amazing types of paper that can be found out in the market. And I feel like I’ve done a bit of that. I’ve looked at a
Paper The Paper Series: Whitelines Pad Review I live my digital and analog lives almost entirely separately. I’ve been a technology guy since I built my first computer when I was 13, and my love of stationery has only rekindled itself in the past few years. So when something really hits the intersection of those two
Paper The Paper Series: Life Airmail Letter Pad Review “What was that paper you used in your last letter?!” was a common refrain over InCoWriMo. As I mentioned in my post about the month, my primary paper for letter writing in February was Life’s Airmail Letter Pad. I had thought it was a fairly well known paper, but
Paper The Paper Series: Delfonics Rollbahn Memo Pad Review I have a real soft spot for spiral notebooks. There’s something so satisfying about watching the notebook get thinner and thinner as I tear pages out to leave notes around or toss a scrap page towards the trash can. Sure, a spiral binding gets bent up if you throw
Paper The Paper Series: Write Correspondence Pad Review When a craftsman is proud of what they made, it shows in the product. So when Chris Rothe from Write Notepads showed up at the BWI Pen Show excited to unveil a new product, I knew I would need to take a look. Chris revealed the first of Write’s
Paper The Paper Series - Our Story Begins A4 Notebook With as much paper as I’ve tried and touched, I can usually have an idea of how a notebook will perform almost as soon as I touch it. When you’re looking for a fountain pen friendly notebook, you’re usually looking for a tightly formulated paper, and the
Paper The Paper Series: Uzumaki Letter Pads In the United States, we tend to equate cheap price with poor quality. Doubly so when it comes to stationery. Big box stores like Staples and Office Depot are stuffed to the gills with bad paper, crumbly pencils, and gummy pens, all sold at cheap prices. So when I saw
Paper The Paper Series: Midori Polar Bear Notebook Like I mentioned in the last post, it can be hard to get a hold of good spiral ring notebooks, especially ones that have good paper. The Midori "Polar Bear" Spiral Ring Notebook is one of the exceptions to that rule, but a few things hold it back
Paper The Paper Series: Maruman Mnemosyne Notebooks As a general rule, I tend to steer clear of notebooks that are built for specific purposes. Planners stress me out (it's all those confining little boxes) and "subject" notebooks make me break out in a cold sweat of remembering college classes and deadlines. So, by all accounts,
Paper The Paper Series: Midori Letter Pad During InCoWriMo this year, I got bit by the letter writing bug. There's something great about both sending and receiving mail, and as a bonus, you get to play with a ton of fun stationery. So this May, when my wife and I went to San Francisco, we stopped in
