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Paper

A collection of 10 posts

Let’s Talk About Tomoe River

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

The Paper Series: Whitelines Pad Review

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

The Paper Series: Life Airmail Letter Pad Review

The Paper Series: Life Airmail Letter Pad Review

“What was that paper you used in your last letter?!” was a common refrain over InCoWriMo [https://loopedsquare.ink/incowrimo-2018/]. As I mentioned in my post about the month, my primary paper for letter writing in February was Life’s Airmail Letter Pad [https://www.jetpens.com/Life-Airmail-Letter-Pad-Blank-50-Sheets/pd/13883]

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

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 [https://writepads.com] showed up at the BWI Pen Show [https://loopedsquare.ink/baltimore-pen-show-2018-recap/] excited to unveil a new product, I knew I would need to take a look.

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

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

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 from being

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, I shouldn't

The Paper Series: Midori Letter Pad

During InCoWriMo [https://incowrimo.org/] 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,