Staples Made In Brazil

[jvcn]

Although I have a few Rhodia and Clairefontaine pads of paper and notebooks, I wanted something cheaper for more ordinary note-taking, doodling, experimenting, practice, and what have you. Just paper that I could use up as quickly as I wished without incurring too much expense.

 

I am grateful to everyone who suggested the options from Staples. I picked up a dozen Sustainable Earth legal pads and also three different notebooks -- both wide and college ruled -- which were listed as Made in Brazil. All these products were similarly decent for fountain pen use. Smooth with no feathering or bleed through. The only drawback relative to pricier papers is that the ink shows through a bit, but not so much that in most cases I can't write on both sides of the paper, especially with a fine pen.

 

Just as a test, I also picked up one cheap notebook that looked like the Brazil notebooks but was Made in Egypt. Totally different. Instant feathering and not too fountain pen friendly. Acceptable with a dry writer perhaps, but I'm very fond of wet writing F nibs. Tempted to go back and clear the shelves of those Made in Brazil items.

 

Thanks once more to all who have commented favorably on this paper. I've found my default work pads.

[ac12]

Not as nice as the expensive stuff, but for the price, you can't beat it.

In fact, in last years Staple's back to school sale, the wire bound, single subject notebooks were 17 cents each. I bought 30 of em.

17 cents each, is cheap enough to only use one side of the paper, so bleed through and shadowing isn't a problem.