- Overview
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This book introduces a collection of the 100 best writing instruments you should know if you are a fan of stationery, from fountain pens to pencils.
- Book Intro
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Seic has been running the stationery blog "I Love Pencils" for more than a decade, and this blog has received more than seven million visitors. After opening the blog, Seic began writing out of desire to introduce the stationery items that are easily ignored by people but ought to be considered outstanding. The author possesses approximately a thousand pens and has used more than a thousand pens as well, picking out just 100 pens among them. The book describes in detail the writing sensation, the knocking sensation, the design, and the story of the 100 writing instruments that have selected for various reasons, such as the popular fountain pen; Jetstream (a soft ballpoint pen); the Rotring mechanical pencil, which looks great even just holding in your hand; and the revived legendary pencil, the Black Wing.
This book does not only talk about pens, however. Short columns about stationery items such as the lead of mechanical pencils, pencil sharpeners, erasers, pencil cases, and notebooks appearing in between will further enrich the experiences of readers. This book is comparable to an assorted gift set for people who collect pens now, people who collected them before, people who want to collect them, and people who simply like pens and stationery.
- About the Author
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Jo Seic
Jo Seic has been reviewing traditional stationery for more than ten years. Stationery tools may be easy to acquire and quite common, but they are dear friends that allow us to convey our thoughts. From 2004 onwards, Jo began posting on his stationery tool-centered blog "I Love Pencils" to introduce quality items that people weren't familiar with or had just ignored. He started with a blog on Naver, a Korean portal website, and his blog on Tistory was selected as a top blog in 2011 and 2012. Now, he runs a WordPress blog focusing on stationery. Jo has also appeared as a stationery enthusiast on TV programs like MBC's Super Blogger and TBS' Lee Ik-seon's SNS Show.