| Flag Pen and Highlighter with Refills - 3-pk. |
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| List Price | $13.99 |
| Brand | Post-It |
| Publisher: | Post-It |
| Used & new from $1.91 |
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| Additional reviews |
| Post-it Flag Highlighter. Twist Top Flag Dispenser. Yellow Fluorescent Ink. 3/8" Flag. 50 Red Flags per Highlighter. 1 Highlighter per Pack. |
| Customer reviews |
Having a habit of marking book pages for specific quotes or adages it's now so easy to just"highlight and tab" the page. No more writing down the name of the book and the page number. I just grab the book and take a look!!! I love it.....and plan to buy more......
Muriel |
I am graduate student and do a lot of reading on a daily basis. I find myself using highlighters and Post-it flags frequently while reading. So, when I saw this product, I got excited about it and bought a few of them - I needed one in every color, of course :)
Well, I used them for a little more than a month before going back to the "old fashioned" highliters and flags. Mainly, this was because the highlighter would dry out when I still had plenty of flags leftover. And, as someone else mentioned already, it is very difficult to replace the flags. So, I found it irritating to constantly have to yank the flags out and add them to a new highlighter.
Plus, the highlighter tip gets "blunt" very quickly. After a few uses, the tip would no longer make sharp highlights and would, instead, make thick highlights. I'd end up highlighting two lines of an article instead of just the one that I intended to highlight.
For me, this product turned out to be pretty impractical. Again, I tend to do a lot of highlighting, so that is probably why. Otherwise, I am sure that it would be great.
All in all, this product is great in theory and pretty cool, too. But, for me, it is much more practical to just carry around a little case where I keep only my highlighters, pens, and posit-its.
I think that the pen version of this product might be good though...as long as you can replace the ink in the pen, as well as the flags. Otherwise, the same problems would arise.
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The flag highlighter is a novel idea, and before it was on Oprah, I had seen it around office supply stores. In my line of work (graphic design), I don't highlight or reference pages of anything - but when I was a student, this little tool would've been put to great use.
Although, I have a irk about marking pages of books - especially books that aren't for my schooling. I don't dog-ear pages or write anything in them. I even try to not open the book too wide as to crease up its binding, and heaven forbid folding the cover backward on a paperback! Some textbooks went without a single mark anywhere (and were great to resell, by the way).
In regards to "A New Earth" and any book that has pages in a similar paper weight, certain highlighters will bleed through the page and you will see them on the other side. This is one thing I cannot stand about highlighters.
So, for me, I just use the flags to mark quotes and pages - no need to highlight or mark anywhere. Frankly, I don't even own this item, but felt I should write something for those of us out there that are weary on what a highlighted, marked up book may suffer. The flags don't harm a thing (and you can write on them with a ballpoint), so I love them. It's easier to go back in the book and read favorite quotes or passages.
And you look oh-so-smart with a book that has flags sticking out its pages. ;) |
| A flag-highlighter is a good idea, but it's hard to replace the flags because the cover is so tightly attached to the pen. There's no trick to it, no special cover position or anything like that. It's just a matter of applying brute force. Grab the barrel of the pen in one hand and the cover in the other and wrench it back and forth until the cover comes off. |
I know it's weird to be reviewing some highlighters, but here I go. These highlighters are among my most used items I own. The quality of the highlighter is excellent, neither too dark or too light. It is generally not visible through pages unless you let the pen sit for a long time on the page. It goes on smoothly. But I would not write a review of a highlighter if all it was was a good highlighter. What these things have going for them is that they have the Post-It tabs built in (and refills come with). So as you highlight and take notes, you can easily flag that page for followup later on.
When I read, I highlight on and write all over my pages and oftentimes I think, "When I finish reading, I want to write about what I just read," or, "I want to copy down that quote." Now I can easily flag that page and come back to it when I'm done. No more dog-eared pages.
I work as a Realtor as well and I often go out into the field with a client with a binder filled with 200+ listings. As we sit down, we highlight important information and note what properties we want to go see. So rather than flipping through the binder to find the properties we marked or rather than taking the pages out of the binder, we can simply flag them. That way, the binder stays intact and organized.
It's odd but true, One of my most useful and efficiency-promoting pieces of property is so simple and so inexpensive. |
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