Editing The Pen Addict 215/transcript (section)

== Journal Disposal ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' There's no weirder for you, my friend. Yep.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' All right. So, this next one is from World Traveling Robo Jim in the Slack channel. It says, what do you do with a journal or notebook that's been slightly damaged some way specifically, like water? Do you throw it away, keep using it, repurpose it for scratch? So, what do you say, Michael?

'''Myke Hurley:''' If there's nothing, like, super important in it, which I would need to then move out of the book, I'm going to throw it away. Like, I'm going to toss it.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I'm pretty mental about this, and I would absolutely toss it. I couldn't use it. I just. No, I wouldn't use it. I definitely wouldn't use it.

'''Myke Hurley:''' No way. Like, I might, there might be some information that means I'll keep it around for a little bit longer, but it would have to be like, I don't know, like a butcher orange or something for me to actually keep using the thing.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I would actually transfer, like you said, I'd transfer the contents, either I'd scan them or rewrite them somewhere else, and then I'd pitch it. I just can't, I can't do it. And, you know, us addicts that, you know, listen to this show probably have stacks of other stuff, so I wouldn't be able to kind of go through and complete this book. It would bother me too much every time I used it. So.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Because it's going to lose so much of all the good qualities about the notebook at that point. Yeah. Like, most of the things that you love about it are gone. They're gone. They're gone, Jim. Just let it go, man.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Just let it go. So related to that, Phil in the Slack channel said, have you ever hated a notebook so much you couldn't finish it? We're in super, super total agreement on this one.