In a recent episode of The Pen Addict Podcast they talked about some weird recycled washi paper notebook. And got to the subject of the price per page in notebooks and touched on price per ml for ink.

Both topics are interesting, but it got me thinking.

I don’t care that much about the price per ml of ink. What would make things interesting is to have a number of how much ink an average person would have used to fill a A5 page with long form writing with some mainstream pen.

Let’s say a Lamy Safari with a Fine nib in a Leuchtturm1917 A5 lined notebook.

I it would vary a lot from person to person on so many different levels. But probably similar levels of being off from person to person.

If we could say that the ink price per page is 0.X cents or you can fill X pages per dollar and compare that would be a lot less abstract and “okay whatever” than the “it costs 40 cents per ml” thing we often do.