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I noticed an assortment of Lamys at the register of Barnes and Noble (Bolingbrook, IL) today. I didn't see if they had a cartridge or converter. I saw some inks over in a display of calligraphy pens but didn't notice if they are stocking fountain pen ink in jars. Progress?

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Interesting. I'll have to check the ones near me. In the past they've had stuff like quill pens and calligraphy inks, but I don't think the inks were safe for fountain pens.

Sadly, they no longer seem to carry the Ecosystems journals. I have a couple of the small size ones (one with blank pages -- the "art" journal -- and one with lined pages "for writers; there were also graph paper ones for engineers and I think a fourth one but I don't remember what those were.

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I love the ecosystem journals. I think you can still get them online. If Lamy made a deal with Barnes and Noble, that would be progress IMO.

"If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live."

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I love the ecosystem journals. I think you can still get them online.

 

Sure. From 3rd party sellers for exorbitant prices. :o

I just checked B&N's website. A few colors and sizes listed, but when you check it says "pickup unavailable" and then when you click on the link you get "temporarily out of stock online" or "Item is available through our marketplace sellers".

Just for grins I then searched their website for Lamy fountain pens and got the "pickup unavailable" notice under all 25 potential listings. :mellow:

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"It's very nice, but frankly, when I signed that list for a P-51, what I had in mind was a fountain pen."

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I think it depends where you live. I checked BN.com due to this website and a few of the fountain pens are available locally but most are only available online.

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The Lamy display seems to be a prestocked line item from Lamy. The fountain selection is limited to AlStars and Safaris in maybe four colors, medium nibs only. Still, it’s cool to see excellent writing instruments available in a large commercial chain of stores.

 

BTW, the B&N store here in Boise, Idaho, has one of these Lamy displays and about 25% of the fountain pens have been sold. Encouraging.

I ride a recumbent, I play go, I use Macintosh so of course I use a fountain pen.

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