I’m thinking the initial run will be between 4×6 and 5×7, use double-wire binding, heavy covered board covers, and smooth paper stock that is thick enough to not bleed through or feather using a Lamy Medium Nib w/ Noodler’s Bulletproof Black. Fine Point Sharpie will be the acid test that would be nice; it’ll depend on the paper samples that come in and the cost. Also will investigate the rounded corner option.

I’m expecting to get some paper samples this week from the rep, and am testing various inks and pen combinations. If you have a suggestion on inks to test with, let me know your recommendations. Thanks!

I got an email from Jorge Luis, letting me know that he’d made a Rainlender skin based on the Compact Calendar. From what I can tell, Rainlender is a desktop calendar app for Mac, Linux, and Windows that appears right on your desktop. I haven’t tried it myself, but it looks like a neat idea.

I was up at my printer this morning, and showed him my beloved Cachet Classic Graph 9×12 notebook. It might not be that expensive to produce a similarly-rugged notebook with really nice paper that takes fountain pen ink well, bound in heavy-gauge two-wire, in a portable size…Would anyone be interested in such a product?