Which Fp-Friendly Notebook (A5Ish) Has The Most Pages?

[DonLeone]

I'm still running Moleskine here and was going to swap over to Paperblanks or pester my local stationery shop to carry rhodia but here's the thing: I make commonplace books. I need a large amount of pages to keep all this stuff on here.

 

Moleskine has the 120 (240 total) pages while most of the ones I've found have 96 (192 sides total) or fewer pages. That's 48 fewer pages. Then again, these other books are slightly wider so I guess the lost space is made up there.

 

What's the highest amount of pages out there? Do there exist oversize books with for example, 200 pages (400 total)?

 

I don't care how thick it gets.

[mwpannell]

Probably Miquelrius

http://www.shopmiquelrius.com/mr-leather-look-journals/

300 sheets/600 total. A5.

Available at most Barnes & Nobles too. $10.00.

Edited February 10, 2016 by mwpannell

[Newjelan]

Nanami (no affiliation) has the Seven Seas Tomoe River notebooks and they have 480 pages. Because the paper is thin (but doesn't bleed and shadowing is minimal) the books aren't too thick or too heavy, considering the no. of pages. They seem to be out of stock at the moment (I think I contributed to that). They come in lined, blank and a dot/grid version.

[Dragonmaster Lou]

Probably Miquelrius

http://www.shopmiquelrius.com/mr-leather-look-journals/

300 sheets/600 total. A5.

Available at most Barnes & Nobles too. $10.00.

 

I've heard that these particular journals aren't all that fountain-pen friendly. Search for a few reviews of them on this site and you'll see what I mean.

[mwpannell]

I consider them very FP friendly and quite nice with little/no problem with bleedthrough/ghosting/etc. I use Clairefontaine/Apica/Black & Red + other quality papers and last year used a Hobonichi/Tomoe River diary and purposefully switched to Miquelrius this year. I do use fine-nib pens and, of course, mileages and tastes vary, but I love them and find them a great value. I am using 100 and 300 sheet books now. All this to say some of us quite like them and find they're a great option. Plus I like graph ruling and they cover that. I guess they're not so much in vogue, but that's no issue to me

Edited February 10, 2016 by mwpannell

[Tweel]

I agree. I've been using Miquelrius notebooks in various formats for something on the order of a decade, and like them.

[DonLeone]

My new quest shall be to pester my local stationery shop to start carrying tomoe river paper.

 

I have a disk bound paper punch, it punches the little mushrooms on the side. Would Tomoe River paper be able to handle this?

[Dronak]

Nanami (no affiliation) has the Seven Seas Tomoe River notebooks and they have 480 pages. Because the paper is thin (but doesn't bleed and shadowing is minimal) the books aren't too thick or too heavy, considering the no. of pages. They seem to be out of stock at the moment (I think I contributed to that). They come in lined, blank and a dot/grid version.

 

That was my first thought, too. Since Tomoe River paper is thin compared to most other papers, more pages of it will fit in a given book thickness. It is pretty nice, too -- almost surprisingly so for how thin it is. Nanami Paper does seem to have difficulty keeping the Seven Seas books in stock; I managed to get one at the end of 2015 when they got a small restock and had a 2-book limit. Their site usually says when they expect to have more in stock, so check the site around that time and hopefully you can get one (if you choose to get one).

[vorpal]

I had five Tomoe River journals made for me by these guys, who did a terrific job. I had them do 500-page journals (250 sheets), but they will make them as thick as you like.

 

https://www.etsy.com/listing/200135551/unique-guest-book-personalized-guest?ref=hp_mod_rf