Editing The Pen Addict 14/transcript (section)

== Moleskine Notebooks ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' Going back to the vanishing point, I've had a weird thing. I want to see if you can help me with it. Some Moleskines, not all of them, but the smaller Moleskines that I've been using, the pen gets a bit squeaky.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Like when you're writing the nib on the page? Is that what you mean?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, so it's like, I can't really explain it, but the vanishing point has had like an audible squeak to it.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Mm-hmm. It's, my guess is, you know, like on the Moleskines that I have, just little small ones, to me, have a more, not as smooth page. That's just, you know, I don't know if that's a fact. That's just kind of an anecdotal evidence on my part, just looking at it. But those pages have a little bit more of a tooth to them. So that the nib just might be, just might be the feedback that you're getting across the page. And then like when I compare that Kaye to like the, the gridded Moleskine, it's, it's a smoother page. So it may just be the quality of the paper. That's the only thing I can think of. It's got a, that page has a little more tooth. And so there's going to be a little more feedback on the nib when it's touching the page.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So it's just for the...

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I'll look at that because I have a bunch of different papers I haven't tested it on. I'll see if I notice the same thing.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Because it's not happening on the field notes.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, that's a much smoother page.

'''Myke Hurley:''' That explains it then.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' That's my guess without trying it out. But I know, was it, which, which type of Moleskine was it?

'''Myke Hurley:''' The small, small Kaye here. Kaye, Kaye, Kaye.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, I know. I hate saying, I hate, I hate saying Moleskine as it is. Because I know that's not the traditional pronunciation. And I have to drop a Kaye on top of it. It's, it's hard.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Well, something I picked up this, this week was one of the Lego Moleskine. Oh, cool. That's right. Yeah, I picked, I got one of those. Very, very happy to get that. I found it in a bookstore.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Waterstones. Do you have Waterstones bookstores?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' No, no. But I've heard you talking about that before.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, and I got one out there. I was, I was very pleased.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So they have, they have snap-on bricks on the cover, right? Is that the deal?

'''Myke Hurley:''' The cover is embedded with one of the flat bricks, which you can then place things on. It's really cool. And then it has loads of stickers, loads of Lego stickers.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Cool.

'''Myke Hurley:''' It's expensive.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I know. I know. They are, they are, can be cost prohibitive if you burn through them a lot, so. But I do, I do enjoy them.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So, have you got anything else that you wanted to talk about today?