The Staples Arc system looked very similar and Staples sell an Arc hole punch for £34. Levenger have something very similar and so, it turns out, do Staples. That was a lot more than I was willing to spend. The obvious long-term solution was to buy a hole punch so I can make my own refills using Rhodia paper. Rhodia’s paper is, of course, wonderful for fountain pens. It’s not particularly smooth and sucks up the ink a little too readily, making it prone to a touch of feathering. Atoma’s paper is okay but not great for fountain pens. The notebook Scribble sent me consisted of Atoma’s metal discs, some Atoma paper and some Rhodia paper. (Or even dispose of them but I’m not that kind of person.) What’s even better is that it becomes an infinite notebook: as the notebook fills up, I can remove the earlier pages, scan them quickly using a sheet-fed scanner, and then store them somewhere else. ![]() I can also use it like a normal notebook, with numbered pages. I can write a note for someone else and give them the sheet. If I want to make rough notes I can and then I can throw that sheet away if I want to. If I want to use one of these sheets, I just move one or two to the front. I have lined paper for the most part but several sheets of grid and plain paper at the back. This makes for an infinitely flexible notebook. This makes it simple to reposition sheets of paper or take them out to scan. The paper slips onto the discs and, crucially, slips off again without any unclipping or tearing. The Atoma system consists of a set of discs and punched paper. There was a distinct possibility the Atoma system might be it. I’m a tinkerer though and always on the lookout for the next best thing. There’s nothing wrong with this except it’s rather ungainly. I’ve written about the system I’ve been using. ![]()
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