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Plantable paper

2 Comments / Paper & Notebooks / 17 March 2023 / paper, plantable

This nice card arrived today.

What at first glance looks a bit like wood chip paper is actually paper that contains flower seeds.

The paper can then be planted, see instructions. What a nice idea.

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Paper paper everywhere

2 Comments / Paper & Notebooks / 29 October 2019 / paper, paper computer, paper phone, paper watch

[An earlier version of this blog post was written on my phone in a rush and contained many mistakes. The number of mistakes has hopefully gone done after revision. See revised blog post below.]

After the paper computer ^[1]I used to use this paper computer with my students for a few years, but stopped using it because I wasn’t able to get a clear answer regarding copyright issues from the people who created it. and the paper watch there’s now a paper phone.

The idea of using paper instead of technology isn’t really new to stationery enthusiasts: This time it is Google’s turn to feature the idea of replacing tech with paper and this has been reported by many newspapers and news websites.

The paper phone kind of reminds me of IBM’s ‘Think Pad’.

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↑1	I used to use this paper computer with my students for a few years, but stopped using it because I wasn’t able to get a clear answer regarding copyright issues from the people who created it.

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Paper Made the Modern Economy

Leave a Comment / Links, Paper & Notebooks / 4 April 2017 / BBC, BBC Radio 4, paper, Tim Harford

If you’ve got 9 minutes to spare, why not listen to the episode about Paper from the radio series 50 Things That Made the Modern Economy? ^[1]Don’t answer that. It’s a rhetorical question. It is narrated by the pop star of economists Tim Harford. ^[2]This is not the first appearance of his name in this blog. Can you find the other appearance?

The image has been taken from a previous blog post about stationery stores in Shanghai.

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↑1	Don’t answer that. It’s a rhetorical question.
↑2	This is not the first appearance of his name in this blog. Can you find the other appearance?

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Field Notes Black Ice

3 Comments / Field Notes, Paper & Notebooks / 15 December 2016 / Black Ice, Field Notes, Finch Fine, Made in USA, Notebook, paper

Here’s a look at the “Bright White” Finch Fine Smooth 70# text paper found in the new Field Notes Black Ice.

As in previous blog posts I have created violin plots of graphite samples on the different papers.

To read under what conditions the graphite is put on the paper please read the explanation in Lunatic Paper or other blog posts.

Field Notes comparison plus samples — The samples and their violin plots

Colour base paper shift

Previous samples were automatically adjusted by the scanner, so the violin plots were all closer together than they should have been, i.e. the base colour of the paper didn’t make a big difference.

This has now been changed, explanation in the video, so the results are more objective, but also feel more difficult to compare.

Conclusion

The finch Fine paper used in the Black Ice Field Notes is great, nearly as good as the Boise paper in the County Fair editions. For my purposes, i.e. writing with pencils, it is miles better than the Finch Opaque paper used in the original Field Notes.

One small issue with the Black Ice though: the paper at the bottom of some of my notebooks was ripped, see photo. Even though the shrinkwrapping was intact this might have happened in transport as my Field Notes calendar was also damaged in transport.