National Notebook Day was founded in 2016

May 19 (UPI) -- National Notebook Day, celebrated annually on the third Thursday in May, was founded by a notebook company in 2016 to celebrate the practice of writing on paper.

The holiday was first inaugurated in 2016 by custom notebook company May Designs, which said in a press release that it wanted to celebrate bound paper notebooks as "a refreshing holdout from another generation."

"The notebook and planner community is so vibrant and alive," May Designs CEO Mica May said in 2016. "If anything, our customers have become even more dedicated to paper over the past few years. There's this amazing connection between writing something down that you can't get typing it into your phone or laptop."

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