My memory is bad in certain ways, and lately I’ve been trying to work on my foreign languages—English and Japanese—so I wanted something I could carry around and jot down new words in as I run into them. Before this I used an ordinary leather-bound notebook. I wrote quite a lot in it, and then a while back I lost it… When I was getting ready to replace it, I happened to see on YouTube that Sharp makes this “electronic notebook” (電子ノート) thing, and that it’s already on its umpteenth generation. The newest WG-30 was about to go on sale in mid-October, so I kept an eye on it, ordered from Amazon Japan on launch day, shipped it through Tenso, and had it in hand for about 1000 RMB all in.