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Writing with a fountain pen was expected of me from about age 8, although the enforcement decreased significantly from age 14 or so. The notebooks / exercise b
by Symbiote 4y ago
Writing with a fountain pen was expected of me from about age 8, although the enforcement decreased significantly from age 14 or so.
The notebooks / exercise books the school supplied could hardly be considered expensive, so you may just need to shop around. Or maybe downgrade to use cheap ink on a cheap notebook?
- ubermonkey 4y agoPaper compatibility with pens is really a multivariable problem of paper x pen nib x ink choice, BUT I think you may also underestimate how crappy mass-market paper is in the US. Fountain pens are exclusively hobbyist items. Children are never taught with them, and that kind of penmanship hasn't been a normal part of childhood education in the US at any point in my lifetime. If everyone is using a ballpoint with paste ink, the paper can get progressively crappier and crappier for a long time before anyone notices. When I buy notebooks in the UK, though, I find that lower-end notebooks tend to be nicer than their apparent equivalents in the US.