Mine as well—and not only paper but writing implements as well. I don’t use pens or pencils much anymore, but I still get a kick out of browsing and trying out

Mine as well—and not only paper but writing implements as well. I don’t use pens or pencils much anymore, but I still get a kick out of browsing and trying out the vast selection in large stationery stores in Japan. (I live in Yokohama.) Japanese book printing and binding have long been top-level, too. I used to help edit dictionaries for Japanese publishers, and I ended up collecting several hundred paper dictionaries from around the world. The Japanese dictionaries had the clearest printing, the thinnest and most opaque paper, and the strongest and most flexible bindings.