Notebook questing

Craig Mod made a notebook. It started life as a paper and binding tests for the Japanese edition of Kissa by Kissa, and then got refined into his vision of what a perfect pocket notebook ought to be. This impressed me in two ways: You should have strong opinions about the perfect pocket notebook. Human agency is a wonderful thing and if you have strong opinions about the perfect notebook, you can just make it. Craig sells his perfect notebook, but he doesn’t sell MY perfect notebook. Refer to point 2. I’m starting from the current position: My handwriting is pretty small. 4-5mm lines is plenty. I mostly use a fountain pen, sometimes a ballpoint. Paper must accomodate this by not bleeding or feathering or ghosting. I am a fan of dot grid paper. I would be happy if all of my non-drawing notebooks were dot grid. I like to put notebooks in separate covers, so a thin and flexible cover beats a hardback. Alternatively the cover can hold loose sheets to be bound into a volume later. This…

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