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When is paper superior to technology?
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When you run out of power on your palm or you have a black out due to severe thunderstorms.
Technology is always in flux. One never knows from day to day what will work and what won’t.
Paper, Pen and Ink are ageless. The only thing that changes is the material used and the quality of that material.
For me things like technology are conveniences that may or may not always work. If one is writing on a computer and the power goes out, their progress is stopped for that period of time. If a hurricane forces you to leave your home and sit five days in a sports arena with no electricity, how would you record the event?
In the United States the infrastructure of our basic necessities are in peril. The government spends so much money on propping up other countries that our own has fallen into disrepair and there are little to no funds in order to correct these problems. All mostly due to the greed of corporate heads, board of directors, and politicians who take campaign moneys to progress themselves and not “the people.” This situation leaves all of us in a position of a very uncertain future. My pen, paper, and ink will sustain me a lot longer than my computer, cell phone, or PDA.
Paper over technology will be my choice every time. Portable to anywhere, lasts a very long time, give one a tactile feel to enjoy.
It’s a simplistic answer, but it’s hard to doodle with the technology I have around me.
Doodling helps me focus at meetings, is less intrusive than fiddling with your phone, etc.
Also, paper seems roomier, somehow. Less restrictive…and there are times that is the kind of space my mind needs to see what it thinks about something. That’s one of the reasons I prefer blank and grid pads to lines. Blank and grid can be used any which way and the writing won’t conflict with an already printed pattern on the page.
I agree about the portability–but would add a sense of universality that crosses socio-economic borders.
I wonder how many people equally love Moleskine and Rhodia because the have different selling points. I love the perforated edge and that I can use Sharpies on the cover and that the paper is thick enough to handle them. These are WORKBOOKS for my fiction and so on, no mistake. But I love my Moleskines just the same.
I wonder if a lot of people doodle on their Rhodia covers. It would be fun to have posts about that.
While I own modern electronic devices for storing information, nothing else matches the trill or excitement of writing with a beautiful fountain pen, filled with gorgeous ink, on luxurious Rhodia vellum paper! I am never without a Rhodia Reverse Book or one of my OMAS fountain pens. I was so excited to see that my local Target store now caries this Rhodia spiral notebook!
I never doodle on mine. I don’t like to mess with my covers. Although, I make an exception for my journal. I went to town on it. I like heraldry so I illustrated some achievements on the front and back.
I don’t know that I would call it “doodling” though in part it is. I draw cartoons on the cover with Sharpies. I’m an artist; I draw on everything. Sometimes I will come up with an idea in transit and can and do write on the cover. It takes on a character all it’s own.
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