http://www.thedailyplanner.com/notebooks-j...s-c-116_67.html
They look very cool. Anyone trying one?

Very disappointing product. It has been reviewed in several threads and I have a couple. They are not FP friendly. Rhodia has compromised the quality of their product by trying to make the paper Moleskinish rather than use their usual fantastic paper.
A most disppointing product.

I have a couple on order that are supposed to be delivered this week. I'll post a review when mine arrive.

Inkypete, are you talking about the webnotesbooks, or the ePure carnets? I have yet to see a review here on the ePure carnets, and having waited almost two years for them to get to the US market. I am hoping they are as wonderful as the staple and spiral bound Rhodia notebooks I have used!! I hope to get some as soon as I start my new job!!

I bought some of the small orange ones from Daily Planner. Although I have not written in them yet, I am already disappointed. The texture of the covers is velvety smooth, even cushion-like, which might be a positive point for some, but for me it lacks ruggedness. The tone of orange is not exactly like the Rhodia notepad covers, and if you look closely, there is a squiggly pattern of some sort. Rhodia notepads look so practical and efficient to me, whereas these journals seem precious and soft. They look so, well, personal, not like objective tools. You can't imagine an engineer or architect using them. There is no gridded paper version, which is another shame. If on top of all of this the paper proves poor, as many bloggers have noted, then I see no advantage to the Rhodia journals over the Moleskines. Quite the contrary! The things that make Rhodia great to me---a no-nonsense professional look, a crisp efficiency, a clean design and of course superlative paper---are missing from these journals. The folks at Exacompta should go back and redesign this product so that it be more in accordance with the true, time-tested values of Rhodia. Or else, they should just stick to notepads and let Moleskine do what it does better.

I am talking about the webnotes.

I ordered one yesterday, actually.
Was after a moleskine, saw the price on the Rhodia's and figured I'll try one out, so I picked up the Travel Moleskine, a pocket moleskine and a small Rhodia.
They should arrive latest on Monday.

Silke

The webnotebooks are disappointing if you were expecting the quality of Rhodia paper. Once you have got over the fact that it isn't what you have in your hand is a notebook that is better than a moleskine and costs less.

I would agree that Rhodia really needs to rethink this paper that they are using.

Personally, I have been fairly happy with my moleskins- a fairly dry writer fixes the bleed through issue. Even a wet writer with the right ink works. If they are cheaper though, I WILL try them.

The small Rhodia journals cost $12. I can buy Moleskines for $9.99 at Barnes and Noble and $8 at The Strand Bookshop.

In the UK the Moleskines are £7 and the Rhodias £5 (double for dollars)