I had a bunch of Staedler stenography pencils and I loved them even though I don't write stenography. They were round and perfect for underlining or annotating in books and they _never_ broke. When I tried to buy a new box, I found that I wasn't able to buy a new set, and the new pencils from the same company weren't round anymore (and it seems to me lower quality). Does anyone make round pencils of this kind anymore?