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i am very picky about my paper, and i have absolutely loved leuchtturm1917’s notebooks lately.

what paper y’all putting ink on these days?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I love Rhodia. Nice and dense, they come in 80 and 90 gram. There are dot pads, graph pads, meeting notebooks, large square pads. I use them all the time for work. And, they are pretty inexpensive.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tomoe River 52 remains a top favourite - I have a couple of notebooks left, so should have it for a while. Have a couple of TR68 notebooks as well.

Cosmo Air Light is a close second - brings out ink properties beautifully and can take a lot of abuse.

The best value for money I've found though has been the Nakabayashi Logical Prime notebooks. The paper is fantastic, and the notebooks are priced decently.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

looking up tomoe river after seeing yours and others’ comments, it looks like they’re discontinued :-( i will have to pick some up on ebay or etsy though, since so many people like it!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Hobonichi notebooks and planners are all Tomoe River. So are Endless Recorder notebooks. Galen also has notebooks in TR. Now is a good time to get TR - it is still available in many places :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

where do you usually go to buy those?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I use to buy from Nanami Paper.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I buy from different online retailers. If you don't mind sharing which country you are in, the community can make recommendations :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Tomoe River did change their paper. It's not the same experience as those initial notebooks. People say it's not bad, but not same glossy feeling.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Currently using Tomoe river that came with my Lochby. It's nice! Before that I used a Lemome notebook and it was good too.

My favourite paper is from La compagnie du Kraft, vélin paper. It's a bit dark and brown, but it feels very nice to me.