| What one unlikely item is common to and useful for | | | | bleed though and leave unwanted markings on the |
| airplane pilots, piano teachers, knitters, attorneys, | | | | other side of the paper. The highlighting done with felt |
| college and high school textbook users, and reading | | | | tipped highlighter pens is permanent and may render |
| teachers? The answer is translucent removable | | | | the score useless for another student. |
| highlighter tape. | | | | Those problems also apply to textbooks. Students find |
| Translucent highlighter tape can be found in office | | | | that their textbooks that they've highlighted with felt |
| supply, school supply, and pilot supply stores. It comes | | | | tipped pens bring less money, if any at all, when they |
| on rolls in a variety of widths ranging from 1/6 inch to | | | | attempt to sell them back to book stores or other |
| nearly 2 inches wide. It's ideal for temporarily highlighting | | | | students. The use of removable highlighter tape will |
| text, lines, or notes. It's removable without leaving any | | | | preserve the value of textbooks. |
| damage or residue, just like the popular brand | | | | When an airplane pilot prepares for a flight he plans |
| removable translucent or transparent tape. | | | | the flight with an aeronautical chart. That's fancy |
| It's used by attorneys and other office workers to | | | | aviation talk for a map. The pilot marks his route from |
| highlight text in documents. For example, a real estate | | | | his departure airport to his destination airport on his |
| closing attorney may need to highlight points on a | | | | chart. Charts are expensive, somewhere around $9 or |
| document that would have to be filed with a | | | | $10 each. Of course, using felt tipped pens and other |
| courthouse after being signed. He or she simply | | | | permanent type markers will render the chart useless |
| removes the tape and the document goes to the | | | | after a few flights. removable highlighter tape will allow |
| courthouse unmarked. | | | | you to use the chart until its expiration date. |
| Knitters mark patterns with it in order to hold their | | | | A reading teacher for the early school grades faces |
| place. Sometimes they need to mark a complicated | | | | enough challenges without having to worry about |
| section in order to make it easily understandable or to | | | | making reading books useless with excessive |
| warn themselves to pay attention to a different knit | | | | markings. Removable tape used to highlight words and |
| stitch. | | | | phrases will solve that problem. A game a reading |
| Musical scores can be marked without damage using | | | | teacher can have play students play is 'find the word.' |
| translucent removable highlighter tape. The problem of | | | | Rather than mark the book or game sheet with pencil, |
| using felt tipped highlighter pens is that the ink may | | | | the student can use highlighter tape. |