Tony: Yes, I have one and a bottle of Chinese writing ink.

托尼：是的，我有一支和一瓶中国书法墨水。

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Little John used to write in pencil, but now he is used to writing ink.

小约翰过去经常用铅笔写字，但现在他习惯使用钢笔。

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But others say he wrote this way because he was left-handed and writing backwards was easier and helped keep the ink from smearing.

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Patterson pencils in ruled lines on the sheets to guide his writing and erases them when he is done, leaving black ink on creamy white pages.

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You wouldn't draft a letter or sketch a still life with an ink-stained finger, but that's what writing or drawing on a tablet amounts to without the proper tool.

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The cap of this pen doubles as a stylus tip, giving users the option to write with ink on paper in the iNotebook device and then quickly switch over to writing with a stylus in the app.

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