I was just curious about how many people write on both sides of the page in their notebooks. If you do, what type of paper are you using?

Well, it does depend upon the paper. If it doesn't bleed or show through, I'll write on both sides. Cheap notebook paper says to me, "one side only, please."

My journals currently have Arches Text Wove in them and they allow me double-sided writing.

Yes. Moleskine

My most important journaling is done in Levenger's Notabilia notebooks. These are full size notebooks with only one signature for two hundred pages. I can write on both sides of these pages if the nib is not too juicy and the ink cooperates. As I have purchased a rather tall stack of these notebooks, I use pens and inks that work well with them. Sheaffer italic F nibs in NoNonsense or Viewpoint pens and Platignum F pens work well with Noodler's Legal Lapis and this paper. J. Herbin Encre Noire and Spencerian Service nibs work well also.

I use Levenger's Stanley Desk Journal for a commonplace book. I can write on both sides of these pages with Quink blue black ink and a Sheaffer Snorkel F nib.

Paddler

I'm with punch. I'm a fan of moleskines and I'll use a Lamy safari with a Noodler's Zhivago or something similar - and use both sides of a thin papered moleskine.

If I'm dyeing to use a wetter nib, I'll get a moleskine sketchbook, you could use the wettest writer about and not bleed through those pages. Actually, I've used a broad tipped Sharpie and not had it bleed through. Now THAT's a torture test...

Brent

Rhodia. Never a problem. I somtimes need to blot the last lines before flipping with anything except Waterman inks.

I am a heavy writer and use the more wet inks. I write on both sides with a good opaque rag paper in my books. The Moleskines bleed thru for me.

Both sides of the page, unless there's bleed through. My "go to" papers (Office Depot Platinum Series 24lb inkjet and 28lb color laser) do not bleed through.

I'm right-handed so I only scribble on one side. I find that when I write on the "back" side of a page my hand runs into the notebook's spiral, and it really bugs me. But I've been thinking that I ought to turn the notebook upside down when I get to the end and work back towards the front, if that makes sense. Does anyone else do that?

- yumbo

Nope.

I write on both sides in notebooks, one-side only on pads. (I use them for vastly different purposes.)

I use mostly Clairefontaine and Apica notebooks...

I write on both sides in my journal, as sermon notes (primary thing I write in my journal) usually take one side front and back, and one side front only, 1/2 to 3/4 of that page filled. I use a no-name journal I got at WalMart or Target, don't remember right now. But I use only pens which do not bleed or feather on the paper, and the paper is not as good as on my other journal, which is a C.R. Gibson, from Walmart.

My pocket notebook usually gets only one side written, as it is primarily for short notes, which shouldn't take more than the front of a 3 x 5 page.

Donnie

Provided that there is no bleeding and/or feathering, I write on both sides if I can. Since I'm right-handed, I can't fill the whole of the left page. I leave about an inch-wide gap between the last letter and the spine.

Not yet, but I will be now...

No problems writing on both sides; I use Levenger Circa, Moleskine, and Clairefontaine.

I never write on both sides of the page. I like my writing to have a clean, sharp contrast against a pure, unsullied page. No matter how nice the paper, or how cooperative the ink, you cannot consistently achieve that goal if you write on both sides.

Yep, just what I'm going to do with my Clairefontaine when I eventually have enough to fill it on one side.

Yes, I do that, but it was not my idea. I think it was one of HDoug's postings where I read about that procedure for the first time.

I use notebooks from König & Ebhardt (Hannover, Germany). The paper is excellent for fountain pens. You can see when there's something written on the other side of the page, but the ink doesn't bleed through.

Regards
Hans-Peter

I've done that with steno pads for fast note taking. Write on one side so you can flip pages quickly, and when you get to the end, flip it over and head back the other way.

For the original question, I write on both sides of any paper that will let me. Since I prefer fine nibs and have a high tolerance for show thru, that's been all but the absolute cheapest. If I get bleed through, though, then only one page (and I curse regularly and swear never to buy that brand again. ^_~)

Depends on the ink I'm using. If there's bleeding, I use one side; no bleeding, I use both sides.

Both sides of an Apica notebook. But sometimes I do single pages leaving the facing page to go back and add notes.


Kurt

I have a no name journal that I have no idea where I obtained it. Yes, I write on both sides of the pages. I've written in it with my Waterman Phileas, my vintage Wasp and a Hero 328. So far, I have had no problems doing so.

It depends on the paper. Here at work I use a spiral bound notebook for notes, numbers, things to do, etc. In that I only write on one side.

When I am using a writing tablet to correspond with penpals I use both sides.

Now, that's a point. When journaling, taking notes, etc., I do use both sides if I don't have any bleed through. However, when I write notes and letters for others, I will only use one side of the paper.

When I learned to use a dip FP in school, I was taught not to write on both sides of a page. Generally, I continue to write on one side of a page only. I use larger nibs and soemtimes the ink comes close to bleeding through. Most often, there is no bleed through though.

On some occasions, as I reread a letter, I find I have missed some information in a paragraph. In those cases, I will write the additional information on the back side of the respective page.

Eh, my current paper of choice is cheap and I'm well stocked. Almost seems silly to write on both sides when I've got a whole ream of paper sitting at my desk.

Yes, both sides. Mostly MiquelRius and Clairefontaine notebooks. Also plain white unruled A4 paper, mostly.

For my journal I write on both sides. For holiday journals, only one side as it gives me a chance to add things later on the blank facing page. For everything else, only one side.

Regards

Richard

I'm new to this journal thing.. but I was using a cheap composition book that had a bit too much bleed through to allow me to use both sides. I just picked up one of the Black & Red notebooks from staples and found that I could write on both sides without any problem reading what was on the page. So now I'm a both-side convert.

No Never.

Lucky enough to get stationery as and when I require it so just dont see the point.

I write on both sides only if the ink has not bled through. If the paper is of good quality I can usually write on both sides with my wet nibs.