> Nader’s main beef is that pencil erasers quickly dry out and become useless, dessicated nubs. He also insists that erasers have gotten worse over the years. >

> Nader’s main beef is that pencil erasers quickly dry out and become useless, dessicated nubs. He also insists that erasers have gotten worse over the years. > “Before you use a third of it, over time the eraser goes hard on you. Not only is it useless, it smudges and backfires,” Nader told me way back in a 2023 interview. I agree. The majority of pencil erasers are absolute rubbish.