Why can’t I buy a refillable version of my favorite pen in the US?
by Elizabeth Lopatto from The Verge - All Posts on (#6JGP4)
What if the holy grail could be... even holier? | Screenshot from the Pilot Pen website Last night I discovered there's a refillable version of my favorite pen available outside the US and I am heartbroken. Why can't I have nice things?
I have been writing with the Pilot Precise V5 and the Pilot Precise V7 for at least the last 25 years, possibly longer. They're great pens! (I have also been assured by Alex Cranz that pens counts as gadgets. They are, at minimum, technology, albeit old technology.) Anyway, the Pilot Precise pens are available at most drugstores, cheap; I usually buy them by the dozen. They are very smooth, even on bad paper - I don't have to press on them to write.
That last part is crucial. See, there are days when I take extensive handwritten notes - many courtrooms do not allow electronic devices - and...