Aug 10, 2010
Underlining tool for obsessive-compulsive readers
More pics and an explanation of how it works…assuming that it does work.
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Aug 10, 2010
More pics and an explanation of how it works…assuming that it does work.
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That is absolutely ridiculous.
I bookmarked this the second I saw it. I’ve got to get one -not because I am OCD, but because all the books I have read have lines through the text where my underlining has gone astray.
My husband would love that! HAHA
I’m an underliner. In church I usually pull out my wallet to get an ATM card for a straightedge. (People think I’m getting ready for the collection.)
This could save many pewmates severe embarassment.
I don’t underline and I hate reading books that have been underlined by someone else…
Guess I am not as O-C as I thought. Let me guess, it is marketed on late night television, with operators standing by right now. “AND…if you call in the next 10 minutes, we’ll double the offer so that you can have one in the bedroom and one at the office.”
My luck, I’d draw a straight line, sure, but at an angle that would end up way above or below the text line I started underlining.
I think the fifth commenter on the linked page correctly points out that this tool only removes 1 degree of freedom. By pushing the pen/pencil further in the hole, you could draw a concave curve, a straight line, or a convex curve. And even once you get it set for a straight line, this device does nothing to guarantee that it will be parallel to your text.
You’re ruining it for the rest of us. :)
It keeps stipulating ball-point, but I wonder how it would work with a mechanical pencil. ‘Cause that’s how I roll.
(A red mechanical pencil. I look through the packages to find the one with the most red ones, then take the lead from the other pencils and put it in the reds. Just in case my OCD-ness was in doubt.)