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A timely notepad
A Time Secretary, notepad and clock, as seen in the movies.
analog  film  paper  time 
september 2018 by M.Leddy
Pen, notebook, cursive
A.O. Scott, New York Times film critic, keeping it analog.
analog  notebooks  paper  pens 
september 2018 by M.Leddy
An agenda
A photograph from W.G. Sebald’s The Emigrants.
paper  Sebald 
august 2018 by M.Leddy
Tape
Federal employees have been assigned to tape back together the documents the president rips up.
paper  politics 
june 2018 by M.Leddy
Paper jams
In the latest The New Yorker, Joshua Rothman learns “Why Paper Jams Persist.”
paper  technology 
february 2018 by M.Leddy
Custom notebooks in Japan
With a paper concierge.
notebooks  paper  stationery 
august 2016 by M.Leddy
Recently updated
“The Power of the Printed Word,” now with Garrison Keillor’s advice on how to write a personal letter.
advertising  how-to  paper  print  writing 
january 2016 by M.Leddy
Paper campaign unfolding
The paper and packaging industry, working to promote its products.
paper 
august 2015 by M.Leddy
Pencil and paper
Khoi Vinh recently surveyed designers about the tools they use.
design  paper  pencils 
june 2015 by M.Leddy
Tobias Frere-Jones on cigar-box edging
“Everything is collected by somebody, and I’m grateful for that. Ephemera, the fragile snapshots of everyday design, would be lost without collectors.”
art  design  paper 
may 2015 by M.Leddy
One more piece of paper
The PocketMod.
paper  writing 
may 2015 by M.Leddy
William Shawn, paper and pencil
The everyday carry.
paper  pencils  writing 
may 2015 by M.Leddy
Joseph Mitchell, paper and pencil
The everyday carry.
JosephMitchell  paper  pencils  writing 
may 2015 by M.Leddy
Gay Talese’s address book
“I am a person who cares about the past as much as the future. I don’t think that it is ethical to erase the past.”
paper  past  time 
may 2015 by M.Leddy
“The Power of the Printed Word”
“In 1979, International Paper began a print-ad campaign, ‘The Power of the Printed Word,’ a series of fifteen ads offering how-to wisdom from household names.”
advertising  how-to  paper  print 
december 2014 by M.Leddy
Paper, +1
Lucy Kellaway prefers paper calendars to digital ones.
analog  digital  paper 
november 2014 by M.Leddy
“Paper wraps stone”
From Ian Samsom’s Paper: An Elegy.
paper 
july 2014 by M.Leddy
Star Trek paper and pencils
Ancient technology of the future.
paper  pencils  television 
july 2014 by M.Leddy
Back to the dowdy world
Today’s Zippy is all about paper and fountain pens.
comics  dowdyworld  paper  pens  Zippy 
march 2014 by M.Leddy
Twenty-first-century OED slips
They still use paper.
dictionary  OED  paper 
august 2013 by M.Leddy
Paper and pencil and the SAT
The kids like them.
paper  pencils  technology 
march 2013 by M.Leddy
Facebook CEO likes paper, pens
She confesses to the New York Times.
paper  technology  writing 
march 2013 by M.Leddy
A very short film about paper
Le papier a un grand avenir.
paper 
march 2013 by M.Leddy
Turabian, fourth edition
“Writers of the era used the tools depicted on the book’s front and back covers to create written documents by making marks on thin sheets of a material called “paper” and fastening the sheets together.”
books  paper  writinginstruments 
december 2012 by M.Leddy
Note-taking at Harvard
From Harvard University’s museums and libraries, a virtual exhibition about note-taking.
notebooks  paper  writing 
november 2012 by M.Leddy
Found
Betty Tingle, if you’re out there: I finally got your message.
ephemera  paper 
october 2012 by M.Leddy
Bicycles, streetcars, annular systems
Justin Hollander cautions against ditching “good old paper,” pointing out that the merits of such once-passé technologies as bicycles and streetcars have of late been recognized anew.
DavidFosterWallace  paper  technology 
october 2012 by M.Leddy
Planning on paper
“I suspect that such planners will be around for many more years, if only from a smaller and smaller number of ‘specialty’ retailers in larger cities and online. In that respect, the paper planner may come to resemble a fountain pen or phonograph needle.”
paper 
october 2012 by M.Leddy
On being an information packrat
At BrownStudies, one, two, three, four engaging and thought-provoking posts on being an information packrat.
books  notebooks  paper 
august 2012 by M.Leddy
The sound of one door slamming
From a Salinger story: “a striking and handsome supply of good, sharp pencils and plenty of paper.”
paper  pencils  Salinger  writing 
august 2012 by M.Leddy
Kurt Vonnegut, Manager
Letterhead from Cape Cod Saab dealership, managed by Kurt Vonnegut.
KurtVonnegut  paper 
may 2012 by M.Leddy
Recently updated
Now with a link to a new source for little brown notebooks.
LarryDavid  notebooks  paper 
april 2012 by M.Leddy
Timothy Barrett, papermaker
“Our whole culture is knitted together by paper.”
paper 
february 2012 by M.Leddy
Ink&paper
A short film about Aardvark Letterpress and McManus & Morgan, the last letterpress printer and the last paper store in downtown Los Angeles.
film  ink  paper 
january 2012 by M.Leddy
Eames on reams
Charles Eames: “What you do with a ream of paper can never quite come up to what the paper offers.”
Eames  paper 
december 2011 by M.Leddy
Charles Simic on writing by hand
“[A] scrap of paper and a stub of a pencil are more preferable for philosophizing than typing the same words down.”
analog  handwriting  notebooks  paper  pencils 
november 2011 by M.Leddy
Stephen Sondheim's writing habits
Blackwings and legal pads
Blackwing  paper  pencils  writing  StephenSondheim 
november 2010 by M.Leddy
R. Crumb's supplies
Strathmore vellum, crow-quill nibs, Pelikan drawing ink
ink  paper  pens  R.Crumb 
july 2010 by M.Leddy
Thomas Jefferson's handwriting
Looking a little like an Andy Warhol work
handwriting  paper  pens 
july 2010 by M.Leddy
Virginia Heffernan on datebooks
Google Calendar doesn't compare
analog  digital  paper  stationery 
may 2010 by M.Leddy
In defense of the telephone book
Voices in the wilderness, NYC
analog  digital  NewYorkCity  paper  telephone 
may 2010 by M.Leddy
Stephen Sondheim on pencils and paper
A Blackwing and legal pad man
analog  music  paper  pencils  stationery  writing 
may 2010 by M.Leddy
Goodbye, White Pages?
No NYC White Pages?
analog  digital  NewYorkCity  paper  telephone 
may 2010 by M.Leddy
Lawrence Wright on writing tools
Index cards, legal pads, a fountain pen
analog  indexcards  paper  pens  technology  writing  writinginstruments 
february 2010 by M.Leddy
National Handwriting Day
With a sample
analog  handwriting  paper  writing  writinginstruments 
february 2010 by M.Leddy
Robert Frost, taking attendance
An attendance register, from 1893
RobertFrost  paper 
december 2009 by M.Leddy
Paper products and The Onion
There must be a stationery addict working at The Onion.
Moleskine  notebooks  parody  paper  stationery 
october 2009 by M.Leddy
Peace, music, and notebooks
A Woodstock Moleskine
Moleskine  notebooks  paper  stationery 
october 2009 by M.Leddy
Carnival of Pen, Pencil, and Paper
Like it says, at Office Supply Geek
erasers  paper  pencils  pens  stationery  writing  writinginstruments 
october 2009 by M.Leddy
"Plenty of stationery"
A passage from Great Expectations
Dickens  paper  pens  stationery 
july 2009 by M.Leddy
Dennison's Gummed Labels No. 27
From the Museum of Supplies
Museum-of-Supplies  paper  stationery 
april 2009 by M.Leddy
John Hope Franklin's ways of writing
Paper and pen, computer
analog  digital  paper  technology  writing 
april 2009 by M.Leddy
Vladimir Nabokov's index cards
Excerpts from Pnin, Pale Fire, and the Foreword to the screenplay of Lolita -- and two photos
Nabokov  indexcards  paper  writing  analog 
march 2009 by M.Leddy
From the Doyle edition
You can't do this on the Kindle: a page from my college paperback of T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets
books  reading  paper  poetry  technology  TSEliot 
march 2009 by M.Leddy
No Kindle for me
"The craving for content-on-demand seems to miss the ways in which one might want to go back to a book — one's own copy of it — over time, as it accumulates annotations, as it begins to show wear, as it turns into a record of one's reading and one's life experience. And how does one inscribe a gift book on the Kindle?"
books  reading  technology  paper 
march 2009 by M.Leddy
Use Both Sides
A campaign to save paper
paper 
december 2008 by M.Leddy
"[T]he shade-tree problem"
On the disadvantages of instant access to information
analog  digital  paper  technology 
november 2008 by M.Leddy
National Handwriting Day
January 23
analog  handwriting  ink  paper  pens 
january 2008 by M.Leddy
Change the Margins
Save paper by printing with narrower margins
paper 
january 2008 by M.Leddy
Notary Public
A name on a notary seal from 1959
ephemera  paper 
july 2007 by M.Leddy
Yellow pages
On the history of the legal pad
handwriting  paper 
march 2007 by M.Leddy
Microsoft disses paper and pen
paper 
february 2006 by M.Leddy

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