Our new friends over at Modern Vintage Man turned us on to Renaissance Art handcrafted leather refillable journals. With a distinctly Indiana Jones vibe, these leather books can be custom ordered with snap closure, tie closure, flap with snap or simple stitched cover. Additional customization is available including debossing graphics on the cover, decorative endpapers and more. Each book is filled with 128 pages of either lined or blank 120g Arches cotton rag stock. The inner paper dimensions are 5.5″x8.5″ and the covers add about a half an inch overall to the size. Prices start $79.95.
Putting Pen to Tablet: Using a Stylus With an iPad
The Wall Street Journal collects a list of apps that turn your tablet into a sketchpad as well as offering some options for styli to use with your tablet.
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Mitt Romney and AmPad
Planet Money recently featured a story about how Mitt Romney’s private equity firm Bain Capital tried –and failed– to build a paper empire by investing in American Pad and Paper (AmPad), the 100-year old US legal pad manufacturer. Click through to hear the whole sordid story.
(via Planet Money)
Cup Book
Clever little dust jacket/carrying case for your latest paperback.
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Pod Office
How about this for an office? Kind of makes me want to say, “Open the pod bay doors, HAL.”
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When a 0.5mm or 0.7mm lead is not enough, try out the Worther Shorty mechanical pencil which sports a substantial 3mm super-soft 7B lead (other lead grades are available, of course). $15
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