/lit/ - Literature

>>5197594
>very well acquainted with an area of production

Already addressed. You need prior knowledge of the author, and genre is rarely listed on the cover. Anything with a shit-eating blurb is probably bad but that's still not reliable.

>>5197604
Slower drying than rollerballs, require more force, are all cheap and liable to stop writing for random periods of time, etc. If you're going for convenience, go for rollerball like anyone who actually did some research would. I prefer writing with a fountain pen over both, though.

General use accumulates with notebooks, as anyone who's actually gone to school would know. They also tend to have thinner and more pulpy pages which will transfer imprints to the next page, cause ink to run more easily if it gets wet, etc.

>well adjusted wardrobe