MD is my favorite sketching and painting paper. I would recommend always keeping it in some sort of a cover. The paper cover gets very dirty very easily, and the fact that it’s just cardstock as well.
YES! Stalogy 365 is my FAVORITE; the past few years I've used A6 size for journaling and this year I treated myself to the A6 Hobonichi Hon BUT ended up going with the Stalogy 365 in A5 size. I love the look of the Hon but had issues (seems to be just me ?) when using my fountains pens because there was some skipping while writing plus dry time taking forever with one fountain pen and then with another fountain pen the dry time taking forever. I'm definitely sticking with the Stalogy 365 from now on.
Love your review, thank you. I love your review on watercolors and how each journal works but I would love to see various water based, pigment and india ink markers, along with various pens and highlighters etc. Do you have videos on each of these with pen tests? I do not use Fountain Pens but would love to see various brands gel pens, highlighters, paint pens, etc. You have the Moleskine history wrong though ;) Hemingway did NOT use Moleskine, he used a notebook that was discontinued, so later it was reproduced in likeness as Moleskine. The history is on their website, I keep info on everything in Scrivener ;) I love Moleskines, but the Leuchtturm is tempting. I am trying the Moleskine Expanded for first time in hardcover and softcover lol. I will not be carrying it around, I am using it for topic journaling ie Tarot and maybe recipe collection for my daughter etc. I was going to edit the information on history, but easier to just copy it : "Prior to being a company, a moleskine was a type of notebook. This was the notebook favored by the likes of Pablo Picasso, Ernest Hemingway, and Vincent Van Gogh. This notebook style was characterized by rounded corners, a leather cover, some sort of closure, a ribbon to keep one’s page, and usually an expandable pocket on the inside of the rear cover. These were a French product, made in Paris, but with no brand closely associated with them. By the 1980s these types of notebooks, as well as the local paperie and bookbinder, had largely started to disappear. In 1987, when visiting Tours in southern France, Bruce Chatwin says he visited the local paperie and purchased all of their notebooks as well any those at other stores but the supply was still not sufficient. One shop owner told him, “Le vrai moleskine n’est plus,” or “The true moleskine no longer exists.” Then, in 1997, the Moleskine company was founded in Milan by Francesco Franceschi, based upon the idea of Maria Sebregondi, who is a co-founder of the company. It was then known as Modo & Modo and soon trademarked the Moleskine brand (not having had invented the original does not prevent the creating of a trademark). The initial run was just 5,000 notebooks and used synthetic leather, unlike the original French moleskines. In January 2007 Moleskine Srl was listed on the Italian Stock Exchange after an investment from French investment firm Société Générale, but it was then taken private by the Belgian investment firm D’Ieteren in September 2016."
I love a hardcover B5 notebook (dot grid with pages numbers) and they are getting harder to find. Thank goodness Scribbles That Matter still makes a good quality version with 120gsm. I have tried Moleskine but I also did not like the paper thickness. I have thought about trying Leuchtturm but I want the larger size and I worry that I will not be happy with the paper thickness. But you have me wondering if they would work. Thanks for sharing your thoughts!
I'm using a standard traveler's notebook size right now, but I'm tempted to switch to a B5 after I complete this insert. I use the B5 or similar Composition Book size for special subject notebooks and really like how much more creative space it offers. It's also nice to keep thoughts flowing for longer before pausing to move to the next line. I haven't used a Leuchtturm1917 B5 yet, though. Mine have been Gallery Leather of Maine (beautiful, for a special memory book) and Mintra (recycled, throwaway style for pure venting, does not take juicy pens let alone paint).
I love my Leuchtturm1917 80 gsm. So far it's my fave for fountain and gel pens. I don't watercolor though.....yet. LOL! Have you tried Archer and Olive notebooks?
Hello! I haven't tried A&O yet because I'm not usually a fan of such thick paper in my notebooks. I don't like the "board book" feeling and prefer options like Stalogy (around 60 gsm) and the classic Leuchtturm (80 gsm). The other issue is that my brain doesn't work with dot grid layouts. Their covers are divine, though!
🌿 TIME STAMPS
00:00 Introduction
01:16 Leuchtturm1917 80gsm Classic
05:00 Leuchtturm1917 120gsm Special Edition
08:20 Midori MD
13:30 Moleskine Expanded
21:01 Stalogy 365
MD is my favorite sketching and painting paper. I would recommend always keeping it in some sort of a cover. The paper cover gets very dirty very easily, and the fact that it’s just cardstock as well.
YES! Stalogy 365 is my FAVORITE; the past few years I've used A6 size for journaling and this year I treated myself to the A6 Hobonichi Hon BUT ended up going with the Stalogy 365 in A5 size. I love the look of the Hon but had issues (seems to be just me ?) when using my fountains pens because there was some skipping while writing plus dry time taking forever with one fountain pen and then with another fountain pen the dry time taking forever. I'm definitely sticking with the Stalogy 365 from now on.
Agree! Tomoe River Paper and I do not get along. Stalogy is similar, but oh so different.
Love your review, thank you. I love your review on watercolors and how each journal works but I would love to see various water based, pigment and india ink markers, along with various pens and highlighters etc. Do you have videos on each of these with pen tests? I do not use Fountain Pens but would love to see various brands gel pens, highlighters, paint pens, etc. You have the Moleskine history wrong though ;) Hemingway did NOT use Moleskine, he used a notebook that was discontinued, so later it was reproduced in likeness as Moleskine. The history is on their website, I keep info on everything in Scrivener ;) I love Moleskines, but the Leuchtturm is tempting. I am trying the Moleskine Expanded for first time in hardcover and softcover lol. I will not be carrying it around, I am using it for topic journaling ie Tarot and maybe recipe collection for my daughter etc. I was going to edit the information on history, but easier to just copy it : "Prior to being a company, a moleskine was a type of notebook. This was the notebook favored by the likes of Pablo Picasso, Ernest Hemingway, and Vincent Van Gogh. This notebook style was characterized by rounded corners, a leather cover, some sort of closure, a ribbon to keep one’s page, and usually an expandable pocket on the inside of the rear cover. These were a French product, made in Paris, but with no brand closely associated with them.
By the 1980s these types of notebooks, as well as the local paperie and bookbinder, had largely started to disappear. In 1987, when visiting Tours in southern France, Bruce Chatwin says he visited the local paperie and purchased all of their notebooks as well any those at other stores but the supply was still not sufficient. One shop owner told him, “Le vrai moleskine n’est plus,” or “The true moleskine no longer exists.”
Then, in 1997, the Moleskine company was founded in Milan by Francesco Franceschi, based upon the idea of Maria Sebregondi, who is a co-founder of the company. It was then known as Modo & Modo and soon trademarked the Moleskine brand (not having had invented the original does not prevent the creating of a trademark). The initial run was just 5,000 notebooks and used synthetic leather, unlike the original French moleskines.
In January 2007 Moleskine Srl was listed on the Italian Stock Exchange after an investment from French investment firm Société Générale, but it was then taken private by the Belgian investment firm D’Ieteren in September 2016."
I love a hardcover B5 notebook (dot grid with pages numbers) and they are getting harder to find. Thank goodness Scribbles That Matter still makes a good quality version with 120gsm. I have tried Moleskine but I also did not like the paper thickness. I have thought about trying Leuchtturm but I want the larger size and I worry that I will not be happy with the paper thickness. But you have me wondering if they would work. Thanks for sharing your thoughts!
I'm using a standard traveler's notebook size right now, but I'm tempted to switch to a B5 after I complete this insert. I use the B5 or similar Composition Book size for special subject notebooks and really like how much more creative space it offers. It's also nice to keep thoughts flowing for longer before pausing to move to the next line. I haven't used a Leuchtturm1917 B5 yet, though. Mine have been Gallery Leather of Maine (beautiful, for a special memory book) and Mintra (recycled, throwaway style for pure venting, does not take juicy pens let alone paint).
Amazon sometimes sells Leuchtturm1917 notebooks at a discounted price. TJ Maxx might also have them cheaper.
Yes! TJ Maxx is a treasure hunt. I picked up a Moleskine Daily there last year for something like $4.
I love my Leuchtturm1917 80 gsm. So far it's my fave for fountain and gel pens. I don't watercolor though.....yet. LOL! Have you tried Archer and Olive notebooks?
Hello! I haven't tried A&O yet because I'm not usually a fan of such thick paper in my notebooks. I don't like the "board book" feeling and prefer options like Stalogy (around 60 gsm) and the classic Leuchtturm (80 gsm). The other issue is that my brain doesn't work with dot grid layouts. Their covers are divine, though!
@@KeyLimeInk I hear you. I have one to try!