Comments on: On address books.

By: Pragmatik · I live somewhere else now.

Pragmatik · I live somewhere else now. — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 03:51:34 +0000

[...] can move the apartment number literally up one integer in your address book if you have [...]

By: Karen

Karen — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 15:35:46 +0000

What do you mean by moderation?

By: Karen

Karen — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 15:15:24 +0000

Wow! I am 53 & thought it was strange that I was looking online for a new address book. I bought the one I have at least 16 yrs. ago from a book club. It is very old fashioned & bigger than any I can find now. It is so old & used that the hard cover binder is broken. I love it because it has an early 1900′s feel with quotes & neat sayings. I really need a new one as it has too many crossed out addresses & no room to put new addresses under the correct letter. I just started to get my nephew out of state to start writing a hand written letter to me. Is there someone out there to make a new address book for us????

By: Damien

Damien — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 00:36:52 +0000

Last Christmas my wife asked me for an address book. She was downsizing from here old and trusty franklin planner now that she’s not working. I had a difficult time finding one that was functional and “nice” enough to give here as a stocking suffer but I did eventually find one made by paperchase at borders.

(I wanted to get her a moleskine but they were sold out!)

As for whether or not these objects are obsolete – well I’ve found that devices fail and they don’t interoperate well (for example when I started a new job, my palm didn’t sync with lotus notes – end of palm).

Paper always works with a pen or pencil.

By: Alex

Alex — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 20:04:49 +0000

You aren’t alone. I still have my Day Minder, which I take everywhere with me. Some work appointments make it into Outlook and other stuff gets into Google Calendar, but everything is on paper. It may not be as reliable, but it feels like it is.

By: Heather

Heather — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 06:59:03 +0000

I’ll send you a letter a year if you send me a Moleskine address book.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 19:14:55 +0000

You are correct, address hooks are harder and harder to find. I use my Franklin planner, and a red Moleskine like yours.
I collect and use fountain pens,and am part of one FP forum’s Snail-Mail group,and I write to about 30 friends, once a month.
It feels good to write letters by hand to friends. Over the years, some of these pen pals have actually become very close friends.
Email me you r address,and I will write you a snail-mail letter longhand. :)

By: Saltation

Saltation — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 23:19:36 +0000

>Am I so old-fashioned that I went looking for an object that fewer and fewer people are using?

it WAS a wax tablet, right? with the nifty little side-sleeve for the cuineform stylus? i love them. they are SO coming back.

By: Johnny

Johnny — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 12:25:00 +0000

Thanks, Steven:) I’ll definitely email you my address this morning:)

By: Steven

Steven — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 12:17:55 +0000

I love your close up shots. It’s weird how ordinary things look so much more interesting when you take a long look at them up close.

Anyway your post reminded me that I want to get my three girls signed up to have some penpals. The first time we had that idea we looked online and got overwhelmed. I need to do some research again.

Johnny, send me your address and I’ll send you an out-of-no-where post card the next time I am someplace interesting. Maybe Garden of the Gods, just to make you miss Southern IL a bit.

Steven
Indiana