Four words as to why I love my Leuchtturm1917 and Hobonichi Techo over all other journals: paper quality and design. I can use all my beloved fountain pens and the designs give me a lot of freedom in my journaling/planning. Plus a few raindrops didn’t hurt either of them. This first prompt is from the October journaling challenge by @journaling-junkie. Pictures are from my amazing weekend with @chatoyantquill at the Autumn Leaves Festival in North Carolina!

Pen: Pilot E95S, Extra Fine (journal) and Pilot 76G, Fine (techo)

Ink: Diamine Oxblood (journal) and Pilot Iroshizuku fuyu-syogun (techo)

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Paper made from wood pulp contains a substance called lignin which breaks down into acid over time, darkening the paper and making it more brittle.

A lot of the books I own (my vast collection since I was like 6, I have never thrown one away…) are made of such paper and they have a faint acidic smell now and are darker because of that process. It’s been two decades, so that makes sense.

Some paper also contains traces iron that gradually absorbs oxygen from the air and create small orange spots, especially on the edges of the closed book. This looks like some kind of mold, but it is actually the paper going rusty and is called “foxing.”

Archival paper are made from other materials (such as cotton). I didn’t know anything about this until relatively recently and was drawing on non-archival trash paper all this time. A lot of my old drawings now look like they were drawn on grease paper for baking at this point, the paper is translucent, dark and crisp.

Very not cool, since I assumed as a kid that paper would just last forever and people in 3000 years would be looking at my crude Digimon drawings and saying “hmm. this must be some sort of demonic figure in the religion of pre-space Ireland! A fertility god, perhaps? *gestures meaningfully at the tail that looks more like a giant, sloppily circumcised dick*”

Even cheap sketchbooks will often have paper with acid or substances that deteriorate into acid over time. Notebooks and journals too. This really is way more disgusting to me than it has any right to be, if I was dictator I would have already passed a law mandating that all writing materials or printed books be made with the most archival paper and ink possible under penalty of exile, death and having your name struck from the annals of history

Shopping cart theory? Get on my level bitch, book longevity theory tbh. A society that doesn’t bother to make its printed information last longer than a decade or two knows full well it is talking shit

I have to mention SP to justify sending this to your SP blog, so does it surprise you that HarperCollins books, especially SP, are made with cheap disposable paper that doesn’t have a long shelf life? The AOH book feels spin-off quality though. My copy of book one doesn’t have any acidic scent yet, although the paper is a little yellower than it used to be. It was printed in 2007.

I have the all-black version of book 9 with the sprayed edges. Looks very cool, but now I’m not optimistic that’s going to last a very long time, either. I naturally assumed when I bought it that something like that would be made to last, but I guess I severely underrated the fecklessness of the publishing industry. Fortunately unlike special editions, which cost extra, the all-black TDoTL copies were simply mixed randomly with the normal book 9 shipments and I managed to locate one on release day. So it was the normal price.

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I mean, I’m not surprised this is the case for softcover books bc I never viewed them as build to last. But I expect more quality from hardcover books.

Ngl, I don’t like the thought of my sketchbooks rotting away, so that’s something I will have to pay attention to in the future :/