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A couple of notebook testimonials One you know and one you might not.

#1 User is offline   yoyology 

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Posted 10 October 2006 - 07:29 PM

I jumped on today to praise two notebooks that I have that I recently tested for FP-friendliness. A quick search of FPN shows me that I'm probably preaching to the choir on the Miquelrius, but I still want to say that I'm loving the way my Sheaffer Jr. feels on its quad-ruled pages. My only quibble is that the spacing doesn't match my writing style, so I end up writing every other line across a line of grid. I'm not sure of the model designation of the one I have, but it's something like this, only much thicker. I'd guess it's about 300 pages.

My other notebook is from Ex Libris Anonymous, a company out of Portland, Oregon that strips the hard covers from old books and comb-binds blank books into them. Mine uses the covers and endpapers from a textbook called Driving the Reading Road. It's filled with unlined paper, in the words of the site itself, "about 75 sheets of 24/60#, acid free, BLANK paper, which is a nice journaling or sketching paper". It's definitely FP-friendly, with no feather or bleed-through, though I have to say that I've had other pens mark a following page. Do be aware that they also make notebooks with cover images from old nudie playing card decks.

I'm not affiliated with either company, but I should disclose that I got my Ex Libris Anonymous notebook free after I mentioned them on memepool (see the seventh entry down on that page).
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Posted 11 October 2006 - 10:15 PM

Those are pretty nifty. I am painstakingly trying to translate "Tam, gde mei bivalei," which I probably have wrong as my rudimentary Russian is very very rusty. I can figure it out until I get to the verb. laugh.gif (Or maybe I just need "Slovarh," since that one I actually know.)

There are a lot of those I want! One of the nudie postcard ones would be a good xmas present for my sweetheart.
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Posted 12 October 2006 - 05:43 AM

QUOTE(sonia_simone @ Oct 11 2006, 10:15 PM)
..."Tam, gde mei bivalei," ...

I think it might be, "There, where we sailed." It's a guess.
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