kaberett | the stationery special interest is back in force (Reply)

Things I am spending lots of time on: shaking the internet to see if I can make Satisfying Review Blogs fall out. Earlier this week the focus was the Roterfaden Taschenbegleiter, which I do not want and am highly unlikely to ever acquire, but about which brain was Very!!! Definite!!! about read-ALL-the-reviews. This means that, for example, I am now aware of the existence of double pen-loop closures.

Other things that have crossed my radar:

the King Jim Magflap Clipboard, as reviewed at The Pen Addict: I HAVE SO MANY QUESTIONS, PRIMARY AMONG WHICH IS "OKAY BUT YOU'RE SHOWING PAPERS PRINTED DUPLEX AND SOMEHOW TOTALLY FAILING TO ADDRESS THE QUESTION OF HOW YOU READ AND MARK UP THE REVERSE SIDES OF THE PAGES???"
Midori metal index clips, inexplicably absent from their main website, which I have caved and ordered some of because the book darts aren't actually the right tool for the specific job I want done. (I am sincerely hoping that these actually are the claimed 0.15mm thickness, i.e. equivalent to the book darts, apparently resulting in a whole bunch of places claiming that the "paper" penguin clips are 0.15mm thick when they extremely are not. Unrelatedly, I have a set of Midori penguin clips that don't really work for what I'd intended them for...)
as mentioned yesterday, the Leonardo MZG Juma dragon skin Blue, thankfully extremely sold out and therefore in no way shape or form a meaningful temptation
the reason people keep referring to the Traveler's Notebook format as "A5 slim" is bECAUSE A BUNCH OF RETAILERS ARE DOING THIS. I! am having! a whole entire indignant autism! about THAT'S NOT HOW ISO STANDARDS WORK. >:(