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Wipebook Review

_DSC0329My Wipebook 2.0 is here. It’s a largish A4-sized notebook with pages made to work like whiteboard surfaces. Or, you can think of it as a whiteboard turned into many pages of a notebook. You can write on it with correctable markers. It won’t smudge when you close the notebook or rub it against your hands, but they are still erasable when you need them to.

The Wipebook 2.0 was crowd funded on Kickstarter last year and was originally supposed to ship in January this year. Like most Kickstarter projects, they ran a little late. Add to that the time needed for USPS international delivery, my Wipebook 2.0 landed on my hands only last week.

This is the second version of Wipebook. The creators of Wipebook had some success with the original Wipebook, and they took to crowd funding to launch the improved version. Wipebook 2.0 raised over CAD$420K.

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Wipebook allows you to write notes, make corrections, and even wipe them away completely so you can re-use the page. It’s an erasable whiteboard scaled down into the size of an A4 page. This is really a great tool for sketching ideas, illustrating concepts, or just put down on paper whatever comes to your mind.

This idea is really great when you’re writing down developing ideas. If at the end you don’t want the page anymore, you can just wipe it all away. If you want to keep it, you can take a photo of the page and save it somewhere, like in Evernote. The ultra-smooth paper surface of the Wipebook is also a joy to write on.

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The Wipebook is available with blank pages, lined pages, and grid pages. There’s also a mixed version that contain blank, lined, grid, isometric, dots and sheet music pages.

By using correctable markers on the special paper in the Wipebook, whatever you’ve penned down stays on the paper. It will not easily smudge off. Don’t worry about closing the pages, or rubbing your hands across the pages. The ink won’t come off that easily.

Dry erase markers work on the Wipebook too, but the ink is easily wiped off, just like on an actual whiteboard. I think the real value with Wipebook comes from using it with correctable markers. Get the Staedtler Lumocolor Correctable Pens. They are available in different colours too, so yes, you can doodle your drawings in colour.

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The Kickstarter campaign is long over. To get your hands on the Wipebook, you can order from http://www.wipebook.com/. It’s not more expensive than during their Kickstarter campaign, so that’s pretty awesome.

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