The challenge of signing large piles of books quickly is something I had never expected to trouble me (although I’ll admit I’ve always secretly hoped for it). I’m dyspraxic, so dragging the pen across all these things is tedious, uncomfortable and leads to an ugly, inconsistent scrawl. I did wonder about getting myself a little custom signature stamp made, as the Japanese so sensibly do.

But, as noted, my signature is ugly, and I in general Dislike Signatures: the hangup is partly from how all-around antiquated and crap they are as a form of identity (and specifically impossible for people like me), partly from working on a court case where a hell of a lot of signature-forging happened. So, I would prefer a different mark. How about the Matsumoto Hoji frog icon I’ve been using as my icon for quite some time…?

Perfect.

 

(I used http://stampit.co.uk/ for my custom stamp. Price was not unreasonable and delivery was very quick – recommended.)