The large size is available from CW Pencil Enterprise, and there is also a smaller size that comes with an elastic closure.If you’re an active reader, you know that we frequently advise keeping a thought notebook or journal around to keep track of daily activities and ideas, and we do so with good reason. They have that classic "composition book" look. Emilio Braga is a family owned Portuguese company that makes very nice looking "cloud" patterned notebooks that apparently haven't changed much since 1918.
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The downside to these notebooks is the price (35 Euros for the size I have, plus shipping), but again, they are a luxury product, and for those of us in the states we have an improving exchange rate and no VAT. They are filled with blank laid paper that also handles ink and pencil well (though they primarily sell pencils in the shop, so I expect the notebook is designed with graphite in mind). or so of having to pay the overweight bag fee coming home. Papier Plus: These very nice, high-end books are made in a small shop in Paris, which is probably one of the nicest stationery stores I have ever visited.Other well-made, bound notebooks that I've found include: (In other words, the stream of consciousness, nonsensical-to-everyone-other-than-me stuff they could use to lock me up if anyone ever found it and read it sort of like this blog.) I haven't started to use the Three-Legged Juggler book yet, but I like the color and will grab one or two more before they sell out. I'm currently using my Confidant (the standard gray) as my Morning Pages/free writing notebook. I would go so far as to call it the perfect pencil notebook, of all the books I've used to date. The paper is slightly textured, which makes it extremely nice for writing with all types of pencils, especially lighter grades of graphite that don't show up as well on smoother papers.
But as many have realized, this paper truly shines with pencils. If you use broad, wet nibs (especially flex nibs), and write with highly saturated ink such as Noodler's or Private Reserve, you will probably seen some bleed-through and feathering on the paper. On the fountain pen side of things, I don't use extremely wide or wet stub or music nibs for daily writing, and I don't use high-maintenance ink, so I've never had a problem with the paper in the Confidant. I've intentionally abused the heck out of the Confidant to see how this thing will hold up, and it's an attractive, well-made notebook.īut what about the paper? It's handled everything that I've thrown at it flawlessly. I give up on, or simply don't purchase, many notebooks because you have to hold them open to actually write on the entire page, and when you do this to a cheap or poorly made notebook it breaks the spine and causes the entire thing to fall apart. The latter is something you would think stationery companies would have mastered by now, but they haven't. There was something about this project that I liked, from the tastefully designed, understated cloth cover, to the very reasonable price (about $16-take that, Moleskine), to the fact that the notebook opens and lies completely flat.
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