1 The pads must be secured to the sides of the hole or the mice will eventually pull them out. 2  Large holes will need to be repaired. 3  After a couple of days, look for evidence of continuing mouse activity. 4  If there is any, check the holes that you sealed, and look for more holes.
A better measure for a pen's ink economy- and this is what they use in product testing- is writing distance. A dry ink ballpoint pen typically writes in the kilometer range- it can draw a continuous line of about 1-3km. For example, Papermate has a economy disposable pen line called Kilometrico. Bic pens fall into this category. A roller ball pen has a typical writing distance about 5-10 times less than that. Typically, 400-700m. A fountain pen has even poorer ink economy. My best guess is in the 100m-200m range, based on how often I refill my fountain pen vs replacing a roller ball.
, Author, publisher, former contract advisor for writers. 1  As a publisher who has laid out dozens of books for printingâa 50,000 word manuscript should end up somewhere between 180 and 220 pages. The typical book's words-per-page count tends to range between 225 and 275âan average of 250. I just laid out a 65,000-word book and it ended up, with a couple pages of photos and a few pages of appendix, at 268 pages (the pages in the main body of the text are numbered up to 237).