Editing The Pen Addict 59/transcript (section)

== Field Notes Books ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. So there was a lot of good news while you were in San Francisco last week. The one that you and I are probably the most excited about and all of our listeners and readers are most excited about. And the one that's the most obvious thing that we're going to talk about ever is the new Field Notes Colors Edition, the Night Sky Edition. Yeah.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I'm just going to cut to the chase. I don't have it yet. Mine shipped like last Wednesday or something, the day after they were announced. And I still haven't gotten them yet. But just looking at the pictures and looking at what everyone else has been saying and reading all the specs on it, I'm going to go with I'm Blown Away. This is probably going to be the best edition in recent memory, in my opinion.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Do you know what that noise was? Did you get yours already? I got mine.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Oh, you dog. I saw some of the UK subscribers, color subscribers had already started getting theirs. I didn't know you had got yours. Yep. They came today. All right. So you give us the full breakdown here since you've got them in hand and I do not.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So it's three books, as you would assume. And each, I'm getting out the other two, because I have one here. So each book has on the back a printed constellation or like a couple of constellations. So they're not all the same. So you've got each, each book has its own one. And what I love most about these is the stars themselves that are in the constellation. So you've got like a, so completely plain black on the front with the gray field notes, right? On the back, you've got lots of like just gray in the same paint that's on the front. You've just got that, you know, lots of little stars and the names printed of the constellations. You have the lines drawing up between the stars, but the stars that are in the constellations are holographic stamps.

'''Myke Hurley:''' That's so cool. So as you move them, they shimmer with color and it's, they're incredible. And the, the, even the, uh, the staple is, is painted black.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' That's what tripped me out when I saw them when they first released. I said, I've never been so excited about a glossy black staple in my life.

'''Myke Hurley:''' And the paper is, I don't know what it's called. Um, let me see if it says it.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It's in the specs. It's Finch opaque text paper.

'''Myke Hurley:''' It's the, um, the way the grid is printed.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Oh, reticel, is that how you pronounce it?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Retical graph grid. Retical. So it's, um, like crosshairs and apparently that's good for, for stargazers. I think, I think these may be the best they've ever made.