Articles I’ve read:

review: nagasawa kobe #8 arima amber (ink sharks) ✑ Connie reviews one of my early Kobe Nagasawa ink purchases!
Fountain Pen Friendly Notebooks – A Big Roundup (Fountain Pen Love) ✑ a very useful article that would have taken a lot of work by John! It goes through 35 notebooks with mini reviews of each. Impressive!
Do you still read pen blogs? (Leigh Reyes) ✑ I certainly hope so! Leigh implies that people are moving to podcasts. I think pens and especially inks are way too visual to move to podcasts at the expense of blogs.
The Zeppelin Inspired Diplomat Aero Fountain Pen (Write Experience) ✑ A pen that I have ummed and ahhed about for a while. My first every Fountain Pen was a Diplomat Excellence A and they are great pens!
Notebook Review: Galen Leather Leather-Bound Tomoe River Notebook (Rediscover Analog) ✑ I suffer from not wanting to write in new nice journals; I can’t imagine how long I’d take to start writing in a leather-bound notebook!
Ink Review #321: Monteverde Gemstone Fireopal (Fountain Pen Pharmacist) ✑ my favourite type of brown-orange!
Ink Review #316: Robert Oster Avocado (Fountain Pen Pharmacist) ✑ An interesting pale green that lives up to the name

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