on saleClairefontaine Basic Clothbound A5 Notebook - Green, Lined

I have never used a better paper for a fountain pen than is in the Clairefontaine Basic Notebook. (I am using an Opus 88 Omar with a broad #6 JoWo loaded with Diamine Red Dragon.)There is no feathering and very little bleedthrough even with a wet writer like the Omar. The page count makes the notebook substantial without being clunky. This notebook is well made and well priced.

Great notebook for daily writing

Love clairefontaine's paper. Smooth, shows off shading and sheening well enough, but dries fairly quickly and just doesn't bleed through. I use mine as an ink/pen journal and accidentally spilled some ink on a page and that even didn't bleed.

I enjoy using this notebook. It's higher quality paper than I'm used to, so I have to get used to the pen feeling like it's sliding around a bit. The binding is very well done and the price is reasonable.

I waited to write a review until I had used the entire notebook - I wanted to see how the binding and cover would hold up. I used this as my bullet journal and it was a daily carry in my purse for 5+ months. The binding held up very well, but you do have to break it in (fold open in the middle, then at the quarters, etc, repeat repeat). Once you've done that a few times it will lie flat, although at the very beginning and very end I did use a paperweight to keep it open on my desk. The binding even survived the Water Bottle Incident of 2017 where the bottom half of the notebook got completely soaked. I had to glue the covers back down but the binding was intact. I'm posting an after pic - it's held up very well considering the beating I put it through. The paper, of course, is fabulous, very smooth and wonderful to write on. It is a bit ink resistant so the dry time is a little longer than the Moleskine I had previously been using. I use Lamy medium and TWISBI broad (which writes very wet). There's been no bleedthrough and you've got to look close to see any kind of ghosting. The line width is a little wider than I prefer, but I got used to it.