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Moleskin Notebooks are overpriced trash. The paper is way too thin and most pens I use bleed through.

by lwkl 4y ago

thomas 4y ago
Yes, but if you use the right pen it helps a lot! Good reference: https://unsharpen.com/what-are-the-best-pens-for-moleskine-notebooks/ https://unsharpen.com/what-are-the-best-pens-for-moleskine-n...
- tom_ 4y ago
  Blimey. If that isn't Stockholm syndrome, I don't know what is. Wouldn't surprise me if the Moleskine paper is less than 70 gsm - I've got some notebooks that claim to be 70 gsm, and the paper has a bit more heft to it than the very thin, soft paper in the Moleskines. I do quite like how nice the Moleskine paper is to flick through, but the amount of bleed is a bit much, so while I do buy a Moleskine monthly diary each year - useful layout, cover feels nice, price not ridiculous, the per-month notes pages (that I typically don't use) act as an ink bleed buffer - I'd be a bit less confident that their notebooks would work as well. For notes, I buy whatever cheap ringbound A4/A5 squared 70+ gsm paper notebooks I can find on Amazon.
  - gsinclair 4y ago
    I use 70gsm Japanese paper that doesn’t bleed through. A dollar spent on Moleskine paper is, sadly, a dollar wasted.
    - bornabox 4y ago
      TR?
- chevill 4y ago
  There are pens that write well on Moleskine but with good paper you can write with nearly any pen and it won't bleed/feather. Moleskine notebooks look and feel like they are high quality but the paper itself is very poor in quality. That being said, If the pens one likes to use work well on Moleskine, there's no reason why a person shouldn't use it. Leuchtterm, Clairefontaine, Rhodia, and Tomoe River are some examples of high quality paper. If you want something that's close but quite a bit cheaper Black and Red has some options that work well even with a flexible fountain pen.
arthurcolle 4y ago
I use moleskine notebooks all the time, stop fixating on price and just use them when you feel inspired. I used to be like the other dude in the thread who says they never want to write in them but just do it lol. $20 is $20 I prefer the larger sized, thinner pages books for this reason, I can care less and still take loads of notes

Moleskin Notebooks are overpriced trash. The paper is way too thin and most pens I use bleed through.

by lwkl 4y ago

Moleskin Notebooks are overpriced trash. The paper is way too thin and most pens I use bleed through.

Yes, but if you use the right pen it helps a lot! Good reference: https://unsharpen.com/what-are-the-best-pens-for-moleskine-notebooks/ https://unsharpen.com/what-are-the-best-pens-for-moleskine-n...

tom_ 4y ago
Blimey. If that isn't Stockholm syndrome, I don't know what is. Wouldn't surprise me if the Moleskine paper is less than 70 gsm - I've got some notebooks that claim to be 70 gsm, and the paper has a bit more heft to it than the very thin, soft paper in the Moleskines. I do quite like how nice the Moleskine paper is to flick through, but the amount of bleed is a bit much, so while I do buy a Moleskine monthly diary each year - useful layout, cover feels nice, price not ridiculous, the per-month notes pages (that I typically don't use) act as an ink bleed buffer - I'd be a bit less confident that their notebooks would work as well. For notes, I buy whatever cheap ringbound A4/A5 squared 70+ gsm paper notebooks I can find on Amazon.
- gsinclair 4y ago
  I use 70gsm Japanese paper that doesn’t bleed through. A dollar spent on Moleskine paper is, sadly, a dollar wasted.
  - bornabox 4y ago
    TR?
chevill 4y ago
There are pens that write well on Moleskine but with good paper you can write with nearly any pen and it won't bleed/feather. Moleskine notebooks look and feel like they are high quality but the paper itself is very poor in quality. That being said, If the pens one likes to use work well on Moleskine, there's no reason why a person shouldn't use it. Leuchtterm, Clairefontaine, Rhodia, and Tomoe River are some examples of high quality paper. If you want something that's close but quite a bit cheaper Black and Red has some options that work well even with a flexible fountain pen.

arthurcolle 4y ago

I use moleskine notebooks all the time, stop fixating on price and just use them when you feel inspired. I used to be like the other dude in the thread who says they never want to write in them but just do it lol. $20 is $20 I prefer the larger sized, thinner pages books for this reason, I can care less and still take loads of notes