![]() Hidden in my bag will be the little device that can replace every notebook in the shop. With 2021’s arrival of the Origin, I may become just another tourist, visiting that shop for the colourful view and a length of wrapping paper. I’m still using up my old notebooks though have scarcely bought a new one since the first version of MobiScribe flew into Amsterdam in early 2019. The colours in the old paper goods shop still draw me in. It’s handwriting heaven -not least because of the smooth writing experience itself. I can even save my notes to an SD card or in the cloud. Writing as it should be: anywhere, anytime. Just as with a “real” notebook, I can spare my eyes -no staring at a backlit screen -and work away from my desk, inside or outside, from an easy chair or from under a tree. ![]() I can erase with the flick of a pen, cut and paste, move my handwriting around. Each notebook is small and light in format, only half a centimetre thick and yet there are endless pages. The page surface is smooth, the pen flows easily, there are no smudges and no ink. From a myriad of different notebooks came just one -or, since the arrival of the Origin -just two A5 notebooks. They would find their way into every available nook and cranny of our little city apartment. Gradually, over the years, I acquired a two-metre high stash of notebooks of all shapes and sizes. Was the paper the right thickness, could you get it to lie flat, was the surface smooth enough? The question: “Do I have room to store this at home?” rarely arose. Notebooks -hardback, softback, spiral -sketch books, drawing pads and true paper delight awaited.Ĭhoosing the right notebook could take a good half hour or so. Narrow shelves reached to the ceiling, stacked with coloured card and paper of every hue -a rainbow feast for the eyes -rolls of patterned wrapping paper, pens, pencils, business cards, all waiting here for you.īut the real treat was up the tiny staircase to the second floor. I used to cycle there regularly, park my bicycle on the narrow pavement and push open the door to enter paper paradise. So, take a look and tell us how you can help or how we can help you.At a bend in the Amstel River not far from the dam that gave Amsterdam its name, there’s an old paper goods shop that first opened in 1869. It tells the former where to register themselves and it tells the latter who are the nearest scribes available in their cities. It acts as the meeting ground for scribes, wannabe scribes, and people who need scribes. The thing is to get them and the people who need them together. Which is what .in does. So, what's the problem you ask? Surely there are many people who can do this simple job. ![]() To be a scribe, you only need to be able to listen and write, and of course want to help. So the actual examinee dictates the answers and the scribe writes them down. This is legally permissible ¨C just like injured batsmen are allowed to have runners for them on the cricket field. He or she sits there and acts as the writer for people who cannot wield the pen themselves at exam time. Here we are, with all those geography answers and complex algebra solutions pouring out of us and we find we need a scribe to write them down for us on those darn answer sheets. We are talking of those of us who are visually impaired or have motor or other disabilities. Medical scribing, one type of clinical experience, has become common in. Especially when some of us need one pretty desperately if we want to get on with our lives. Medical scribes have become a common fixture in healthcare, but little is known. If only all of us could get a scribe like that at the drop of a hat¡er¡ tusk. ![]() So what did he do? He asked for a scribe.Īnd Ganesha, the greatest of them all, broke off a tusk and sat down to put into writing that great epic we all grew up with. When Sage Vyasa wanted to write the Mahabharata all those thousands of years ago, he was in a hurry and the words were spilling out of him. ![]()
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