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Why Fountain Pens? (ennui-vagaries.cc)

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I don't recall any point in time where I had any interest in fountain pens. I was born well after the time of the fountain pen, and there weren't any relatives in my family that had any special attachments to fountain pens.

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[–] Scrath@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I feel like they are honestly easier to write nice with. With a ballpoint pen, I tend to scribble where as with a fountain pen my writing seems more legible. I also find them more comfortable for longer writing because I don't have to press the pen on the paper. It's more like its gliding across it.

I also like that they are refillable with pretty much any ink I want and that their refills come in glass bottles as opposed to metal or plastic cartridges that are just thrown away when empty. Of course there are plastic ink cartridges for fountain pens, I just don't use them.

[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

And even if you've got a cartridge filler you can just refill the same cartridge indefinitely. I'm pretty sure the cartridge in my rather high mileage Sheaffer Targa which I've been using since high school is the one that originally came in it. I've just refilled it with a syringe about eleven bazillion times in the interim.