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Here's a place to compile our finds for notebooks, composition notebooks, filler papers, folders, labels, etc. that are fountain pen friendly as well as inks and starter pens.

 

Please describe your find, brand, where made, price, and where you found it.

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I teach math, so I am always looking for fountain-pen-friendly, graph-ruled notebooks that are inexpensive. Last year I did not find much, but this year I had luck at Staples. About a month ago, when back-to-school sales started, I found Staples brand graph ruled composition books and spiral notebooks for $1 and $2 each, respectively. They are made in Egypt but have pretty good paper, better than some of the made-in-Brazil, inexpensive notebooks I've gotten during back-to-school sales.

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I first saw these Markings composition notebooks at Fred Meyer in Brookings, Oregon a couple of weeks ago. The one I bought had the University of Oregon "O" logo on the cover with the school colors. Another cover gave the same treatment for Oregon State University. Inside the notebooks were identical to the ones pictured here. I found these at my neighborhood Staples. Not cheap: they're $3 apiece, same as the University of Oregon version I bought. But they're more FP-friendly than most—truly smooth paper surface, no feathering with any of the pen-ink combos I tested, and so little show-through I can readily use both sides.

 

 

This is one of three or four covers I found at Staples. The boards are stiff, virtually a hardcover notebook.

 

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Turn the notebook over and here's the I.D.

 

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No feathering whatever.

 

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You can comfortably write on both sides.

 

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I love the smell of fountain pen ink in the morning.

 

 

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Today I found composition notebooks from Brazil for fifty cents at Staples. They were mixed among those from other sources. I'll be stocking up. Spiral 8.5 x 11 inch Sustainable Earth notebooks with perforated pages and bagasse (sugar cane) paper from Egypt are $5.95.

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I always buy the Wal-Mart $.17 notebooks. They work best for me with a fine nib with Noodler's Bulletproof black. Other color Noodler's inks tend to bleed through. But, the $.17 notebooks are the best for me. I just bought a whole bunch for my classes for this semester. I suggest you buy one and test it with your preferred ink/pen. At $.17 you have nothing to lose. Some show through, but I write on both sides. Not too bad.

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I teach math, so I am always looking for fountain-pen-friendly, graph-ruled notebooks that are inexpensive. Last year I did not find much, but this year I had luck at Staples. About a month ago, when back-to-school sales started, I found Staples brand graph ruled composition books and spiral notebooks for $1 and $2 each, respectively. They are made in Egypt but have pretty good paper, better than some of the made-in-Brazil, inexpensive notebooks I've gotten during back-to-school sales.

 

I like these graph ruled composition books a lot. One problem I find with this type of book is that the lines are often too thick or even blurry. I haven't had that problem with these Staples books. Also, I particularly like that the covers are tasteful with just "Composition" and "Graph Ruled" printed on the front and the Staples logo small and at the bottom of the back cover. I picked up a few more yesterday and they're still $1.

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