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I would love to know peoples preferences of ink when writing notes in books.

 

I'm just using Parker Quink at the moment, in my Journal and for letters it's spot on. I've just started taking notes in a book though and the feathering on the reall shoddy paper makes the writing extremely difficult to read.

 

Any suggestions of different inks and colours would be awesome

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I would love to know peoples preferences of ink when writing notes in books.

 

I'm just using Parker Quink at the moment, in my Journal and for letters it's spot on. I've just started taking notes in a book though and the feathering on the reall shoddy paper makes the writing extremely difficult to read.

 

Any suggestions of different inks and colours would be awesome

If you are trying to write on bad paper, you may want to use a drier ink such as Pelikan 4001, and a XF or F nib pen that writes on the dry side. You can also try Noodler's X-Feather ink, that stuff does work as intended and doesn't feather badly even on the cheapest of papers.

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No ink. Pencil is the way to go.

Unfortunately this may be true. Pencil or a fine rollerball works real well. Book paper would vary from book to book. But none of it seems good for ink

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If I am writing in a book where I want permanent notes and the paper is not fountain pen friendly, as most books aren't, I use Pigma Micron or Prismacolor pens in 005, 05, or 01 size. They don't bleed or feather and are used extensively in marking Bibles.

 

http://www.jetpens.com/search?q=pigma

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I'd use pencil to write in books, if I could bring myself to do such a thing. I've inherited books in which people have written notes and enjoyed seeing those traces of former readers...but can't bring myself to leave my own such traces!!

"Life would split asunder without letters." Virginia Woolf

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I'd use pencil to write in books, if I could bring myself to do such a thing. I've inherited books in which people have written notes and enjoyed seeing those traces of former readers...but can't bring myself to leave my own such traces!!

 

We have similar sensibilities. I just can't bring myself to deface a printed page. Even in the name of study.

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Thanks for the information and advice guys. The reason I am doing notes in books is for studying purposes otherwise the pages would be pristine! It doesn't feel right writing on the pages but unfortunately it's gotta be done.

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Thanks for the information and advice guys. The reason I am doing notes in books is for studying purposes otherwise the pages would be pristine! It doesn't feel right writing on the pages but unfortunately it's gotta be done.

 

I know how it is. The only time I could bring myself to underline a "textbook" was in high school. It was a Utopian Literature class, and the textbook was a cheap paperback.

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I rarely write in books, and when I do I always use pencil. Same goes for music.

"To read without also writing is to sleep." - St. Jerome

 

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When I want to write in a book I use Diamine Red Dragon ink in my Estie SJ with a 2550 nib -- very fine. And a very dry writer.

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We have similar sensibilities. I just can't bring myself to deface a printed page. Even in the name of study.

 

I have trouble doing this myself. I have one or two non-fiction reference books in which I've made light notes or brackets, only in the margins. The only other books I mark are works I teach: I have separate, non-reading paperback copies of these which I can write in as much as I need to, knowing that I have a clean reading copy elsewhere when I just want to enjoy the book. Even in these, I never make a permanent mark, but always use a pencil.

"To read without also writing is to sleep." - St. Jerome

 

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I shudder when I see examples of "book art" on Pinterest. Cutting and sculpting pages, drawing and painting on pages, using the pages to make gift bags, using the covers to make journals ... aaargh! It's sacrilege, I tell you! Sacrilege! :crybaby:

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I've found that R&K Salix writes on newsprint with little feathering when using a dry to moderate flow fine or medium nib. I would suspect that other IG inks have similar properties.

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I have a hard time writing in a book. If I do, it's with pencil.

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We have similar sensibilities. I just can't bring myself to deface a printed page. Even in the name of study.

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I write in the books I read and first preference goes to FPs. I test-write with an EF nib and whatever ink I have in that pen. If there's feathering or bleed-through and I think an ink-switch will work I usually switch to R&K Salix. If the test result is awful I keep the ink where it is and switch to a #6B pencil. Penguin Classics Deluxe Editions (a lot of Great Books here) use FP-friendly paper. Dive in.

I love the smell of fountain pen ink in the morning.

 

 

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My routine is to write with a pencil on a large Post It note with a page reference followed by a decimal locator showing the position down the vertical axis of the page e.g. 34.7 and then I write my notes. The Post It notes are then stuck on the inside back cover of the book.

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How about a Staedtler Mars 700 technical pen in a very fine point? I have both a 3x0 (.1 mm) and 4x0 (.18 mm). I have used on bible paper with success. And that is very thin - onion skin like.

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