Customer Reviews
I needed a narrow A5 notebook to fit a leather cover. The notebook that came with the cover was just fine for ballpoint or pencil, but with fountain pens, the bleed-through was terrible. When Blake reviewed this Dressco notebook and said that The Paper Mind might start carrying them, I was hopeful; when he told me they finally had them, I was delighted.
The paper in this notebook is beautiful. It's a nice, sharp white (and watermarked), and it has just a bit of texture, resulting in just a bit of feedback from a nib. I've now written in it with two pens, one with an EF nib and Edelstein Garnet ink, the other with an italic nib and Iroshizuku fuyu-syogun ink. Neither feathered, and there was no bleed-through. There was some ghosting from the Edelstein, almost none with the more subdued fuyu-syogun. The writing experience with both pens is very pleasant.
The notebook lays flat, but not quite as flat as my Passapied and Mitsubishi Bank Paper notebooks. The cover is a very nice paper material, fine for keeping the notebook on your desk or in a phone caddy, especially with its narrower width than regular A5 notebooks. It works great with my leather cover, but for a standalone notebook, I think the Passapied has a nicer cover and would better stand up to being carried around in a book bag and jammed in with my tablet, keys, and whatever else gets tossed in there.
I like this notebook very much and will buy more of them. If you want or need a fountain-pen-friendly, narrower sized notebook than a standard A5, I think this one is excellent.
Customer Reviews
I needed a narrow A5 notebook to fit a leather cover. The notebook that came with the cover was just fine for ballpoint or pencil, but with fountain pens, the bleed-through was terrible. When Blake reviewed this Dressco notebook and said that The Paper Mind might start carrying them, I was hopeful; when he told me they finally had them, I was delighted.
The paper in this notebook is beautiful. It's a nice, sharp white (and watermarked), and it has just a bit of texture, resulting in just a bit of feedback from a nib. I've now written in it with two pens, one with an EF nib and Edelstein Garnet ink, the other with an italic nib and Iroshizuku fuyu-syogun ink. Neither feathered, and there was no bleed-through. There was some ghosting from the Edelstein, almost none with the more subdued fuyu-syogun. The writing experience with both pens is very pleasant.
The notebook lays flat, but not quite as flat as my Passapied and Mitsubishi Bank Paper notebooks. The cover is a very nice paper material, fine for keeping the notebook on your desk or in a phone caddy, especially with its narrower width than regular A5 notebooks. It works great with my leather cover, but for a standalone notebook, I think the Passapied has a nicer cover and would better stand up to being carried around in a book bag and jammed in with my tablet, keys, and whatever else gets tossed in there.
I like this notebook very much and will buy more of them. If you want or need a fountain-pen-friendly, narrower sized notebook than a standard A5, I think this one is excellent.