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"Paper" used to mean endless soul-destroying reams of office printout, or before that, typed memos. And thank goodness, that seems to be receding. The new "pap
by JulianMorrison 10y ago
"Paper" used to mean endless soul-destroying reams of office printout, or before that, typed memos. And thank goodness, that seems to be receding.
The new "paper" isn't really the same thing. Like handwriting, woodblock printing, and the making of books from hand-inked parchment, it is receding into a handicraft.
- bduerst 10y ago"Stationery" is probably the term you're looking for.
- keithpeter 10y agoYes, but in the era before the reams of printout, we had notebooks produced by local stationery printers in styles that varied shop to shop. I miss that local choice and small scale production. UK: anyone remember the hard backed board notebooks with marbled covers and canvas spines in around 10 by 8 inch format?
- refset 10y ago> anyone remember the hard backed board notebooks with marbled covers and canvas spine Yes! Although my only encounter with them was when they were handed out for use as "lab books" during university. They certainly felt like a night-and-day upgrade over whatever was given out in school classrooms. Tuition fees well invested...