Have you ever whipped out a fine looking fountain pen, basked as bystanders proclaimed its beauty, leaned over to write something for the ages in your flowing script, then nearly put a hole through the paper because your pen had dried up?
Ha.
As you sheepishly brush away the dried flecks of ink and try to cadge a cheap ballpoint, reflect on this: for a mere $20 or so on Amazon , you can have a pen that won't embarrass you.
One of the drawbacks of a fountain pen is that if you don't use it pretty frequently, the ink in the nib will dry up. Japanese pen maker Platinum solves this problem with their Plaisir model. It can stay capped and writeable for up to a year, unlike the other clinging vine pens with their constant demands for attention.
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