Editing The Pen Addict 119/transcript (section)

== Pen Case Configuration ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. So, so tell us, I'm looking at the, the side view photos. Tell us what's actually loaded out in this thing and in the configuration you came up with.

'''J. Robert Lennon:''' Well, I got, um, I wanted to carry around the iPad mini in there because when, uh, I use that for reading pretty much every day. If I'm not reading an actual physical book, I'm probably reading something on there, especially, um, because of my job, I have to read a lot. Like it's not a burden. I enjoy it, but, um, a lot of novels written by my students. So it's like early drafts of novels that we're going to have a meeting and talk about. And the easiest way, you know, right. And instead of hauling around a giant pile of eight and a half by 11 inch paper, I just have them send me a Word document and then I reformat it so that it will look good on the iPad. And I just read it as an ebook. Um, so I need to have that with me all the time. So I got the pocket in the back. I was thinking I might go for, they have two ways to do it. There's like a, one is a felt pocket that you tuck it into. And the other is, um, four pieces of elastic. Yeah. That clip on the corners. And I think the reason I didn't go for that is that it just didn't look, first of all, it was a little, it looked like it'd be a little fiddly to get the iPad out and put it back in. And also it looked, didn't look strong to me. I know that's irrational and it's probably perfectly strong. Um, but even though I sort of wish the pocket were a little bigger so that I could leave the smart cover on the iPad, uh, it's very secure. Uh, and I never am afraid it's going to fall out of the, out of the Tosh McLeod.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So I would have, um, gone with the choice that you got, but mine was, was bought for me. It was a gift. Oh. Um, so I have the little clips, the elastic clips, and I love it that way because I can use the iPad while it's in there. Oh, good. So you can kind of have the notepad on one side and take notes with the other part. It's, it's really easy to get out. You can just like, you just flick it and it's basically, you can just come out. You just push the, like two of the sides together and it'll pull out. Putting it back in takes a little bit longer because you have to clip each corner. You know, you have to pull the elastic over each corner to hold it in, but I can shake it when it's open and the thing don't come out of there.

'''J. Robert Lennon:''' Well, I take some comfort in knowing, and I know this about myself in general, that no matter which of the two options I'd chosen, I would have, I was going to wish I'd gotten the other one.

'''Myke Hurley:''' The benefit that you have is you can pull the iPad out without ever opening the thing pretty much.

'''J. Robert Lennon:''' Yeah. Yeah, that's true. So you've got, you've got that. So I've got, so I also have some of those clear plastic wallets in there, like three of them folded in. And the one nice thing I like about those is you just get as many as you want and you can put them all under one clip. The clip will just hold them all in there at the same time. Mm-hmm. And I got these Muji cells, these, they're like these notebook covers and they're made out of the same material like the tag on a pair of Levi's is made out of. It's sort of like, it's leather-like, but I think it's actually made of sort of a thick, strong paper maybe, or a sort of ragstock, thick ragstock paper. And I cut those down to size to make these little folders that could clip in. And in one of them, I've got a Tomoe River, like correspondence pad in there that I got from Nanami paper. And another one I have is like the, is like the cover for the clear plastic thing. So I have like these little folders with stuff in them and that I could put other stuff in them as well. And then in the front, I've got some business cards and I finally found a place to put my, my nerd merit badge, my inbox zero nerd merit badge that I bought a couple of years ago. That's perfect. And I got some pens clipped in the front pocket as well. And now in a, now in a vintage pocket protector, which is my new stupid collecting thing. I have a, I have a feeling.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. You sent me the link to this pocket protector. We'll have to, we'll have to put that in the show notes for sure. Cause it's really, really sweet. But yeah, this is, I'm in a, I'm in a notebook transition right now where I can't settle on one thing. Like I've got the Midori travelers that I haven't been using and I've got the Tash and McGlider that I haven't been using, you know, properly, but looking at something like this, I'm like, this is exactly what I need to.

'''Myke Hurley:''' You have one.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. We've talked about this.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Have we spoken about this on air?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I'm pretty sure because, um, uh, one of our listeners sent it to me. He had an extra one. Oh. Um, Mr. Uh, Mr. Torsten.

'''J. Robert Lennon:''' Do you mean a Tash and McGlider or a traveler?