A child-friendly play-at-home puzzle adventure.Our guess is that if Airmail Adventures built a quality hint system it would mitigate some of the more frustrating puzzles.Īll in all, this was an interesting game for late elementary school and early middle school aged-kids who like to read, puzzle, and think for fun. There was a lot to take in and the font choice didn’t make it easier on the eyes.Īdditionally, we can’t really comment on the quality of the hint system as it wasn’t completed when we played. Additionally, we persistently felt bogged down by the volume of reading. Some were great some left something to be desired. While the puzzles varied in difficulty, I suspect that most of the kids who complete it will feel like they earned their victory. It’s a unique type of paper with a cool history, and I highly recommend picking some up for yourself.The Lost Journal of Flintlock Flynn was a more challenging game than we were anticipating given its intended audience. So, if you’re looking for something that will surprise and delight letter recipients, take a look at the Life Airmail Letter Pad. At $6.50 a pad for 50 sheets, the Airmail Letter Pad is cheap enough to pick up on a whim, just to play with the crinkly paper. While I bought mine at JetPens, Vanness Pens also carries these pads, and I’ve seen them at Kinokuniya, if you’re lucky enough to live near one. The Life Airmail pads are also getting easier to get a hold of as well.
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The thinness and lightness ensures that you can write a whole bunch of pages without running into letter weight issues, and there is a matching envelope set as well. As you might imagine, there’s a tremendous amount of show through, but no bleedthrough or feathering, even with my wettest pens.Īs the name suggests, this paper is great for writing letters with. I assume that the higher cotton content is what makes inks lose some of their shading and sheen character, but the Airmail paper handles fountain pens just fine. There’s a pleasant feedback to writing on paper so thin with all of the writing implements that I’ve tried. This stuff is thinner than Tomoe River’s 52gsm paper.īut the thinness doesn’t mean it’s a bad writing experience by any means. As my dad would say, “they’re so thin they only have one side!” As a result, the fifty sheets included in the pad feel like even fewer than that.
I can’t overstate how thin these pages are. A heavy guide sheet is included, which lets it play double duty as both a guide sheet and a bit of a protection for the pages underneath. Each page is blank, but the thinness of the paper encourages the use of a guide sheet. The Airmail Letter Pad comes in a roughly A4 sized, glue bound pad. The Life Airmail Letter Pad is one of those options. While a lot of onionskin paper was used with typewriters, there are still manufacturers making onionskin for handwriting as well. The “strange” texture comes from the fact that it has a relatively high cotton content, which is part of what makes it so light.
#Airmail review skin
As the name suggests, onionskin paper has a strange, crinkly feeling much like, well, the skin of an onion. While most references to onionskin talk about its usage for typewriters, onionskin was also widely used for handwritten letters as well. Life’s Airmail paper is a type of onionskin paper. There were pages made in such a way that the stationery folded up to become its own envelope, experiments with cross writing, and a kind of paper called “onionskin paper.” So, paper manufacturers began experimenting to try and find a lighter type of paper, in part due to airmail. Not on its own, but if you’ve ever lifted a box of books, you know that it adds up quickly. That ended poorly.) The catch is that paper is heavy. (Unless, of course, it was traveling by hot air balloon. Now, instead of taking weeks, letters could cross tremendous distances relatively quickly. In the early 20th century, mail delivery via air travel became a possibility for the first time. To best explain what airmail paper is, we need to have a bit of a history lesson. I had thought it was a fairly well known paper, but it was quickly apparent that lots of people had never seen it. As I mentioned in my post about the month, my primary paper for letter writing in February was Life’s Airmail Letter Pad. “What was that paper you used in your last letter?!” was a common refrain over InCoWriMo.
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