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== Comp Notebook ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' Right. Right. All right. So this last product. I want you to go first. Michael. So this is called. Comp. Simply comp. We have not talked about this. I would like to hear your feedback. And you know what this means. Usually before.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I let you go first. So the comp notebook. It is a. A fancy version. Of what is called the. What is. What is the name of these notebooks. The composition. Composition. Now this is not something that we have.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. In the UK. Yeah. You did not grow up. Did you grow up with any type of.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Notebook. That wasn't a spiral bound. Or any kind of. Like staple bound. Tape bound. Any kind of.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I don't remember them.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Sure. There isn't. You know. So just not a thing. Not a thing.

'''Myke Hurley:''' People can correct me if I'm wrong. But like. I can't think of like. This. This. Brand that everybody used. Now. I know these books. Because I would see them on American TV. Like on Saved by the Bell. Exactly. So I do have a little taste of nostalgia for this classic design. Now. I watched the video. And this is quite simply. Probably the best Kickstarter video that I have ever seen. They created a documentary. About this notebook. And then I backed it. Did you? Yeah. I backed it. I thought. This is so well done. You care about this so much. I will throw $20 at you. And get one of these books.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' The video. Is the best Kickstarter video. I have ever seen as well. It's incredible. It's a literal documentary. Yeah. On the composition notebook.

'''Myke Hurley:''' It's almost like. This project started. With him wanting to make a documentary. Right. And then halfway through. He was like. Do you know what? I'm just going to make my own book. And sell it on Kickstarter.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Well they're from an advertising company. Right. I mean. They have all the tools there. They have the storytelling ability. To pull that off. Right. Pentagram is a huge design firm. Oh.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Is they come from there? Okay. Interesting. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. As great as the video is. This product is absolutely everything. But a composition notebook.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It is in 0%. Okay. 1% composition notebook. And the fact that the cover is marbled. That is the only. Composition notebook feature. Why is that? That it is. This is not what a composition notebook is. It's not. You can. And you look it in the video. When they go through the history of it. Composition notebooks are staple bound. Tape bound covers. Circular corners. Yeah. Rounded corners. I mean.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Finer rulings on the lines.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' This is.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' This actually makes me kind of upset. Oh. Okay. Interesting. It's. It's. Just on the marketing of it. It's a. Awesome journal. It's a great notebook. It's a Leuchtturm. It's a Moleskine. They got it for a great price. The price is very good. It's not a composition book. And I'm very partial to composition books. So it makes me upset. Especially when. You watch that video. And the love to the composition book. And they're going to make it better. And they show Michael Beirut's stack of composition books. Which is something I've seen for years. Which is just wonderful. I love seeing beat up destroyed compositions books. This is not a composition book. Composition books. Are cheap. And made for the masses. And. You know. They're put together differently. They have a different meaning for this. This is a journal. It's not a composition book. It has a completely different meaning. Style. Taste. Aesthetic to it. It's just not. It's. That's the problem I have with it. Um. The lines. And the spacing. Are horrible. I hope you order blank. Because. Yeah. Yeah. I don't. I don't understand. Yeah. It's disgusting. I don't understand what they're doing with that line.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. I don't know. I don't know why you would do that. I don't know what the big black line is for. I don't know what the big gap is for. I don't like the lines.