Is The Paper In Rhodia Side-Stapled Cahiers The Same As The Top-Stapled Pads?

[lurcho]

Love the Rhodia Bloc pads, but hate the fact they have to be ripped out to use the other side.

 

I've only just discovered a UK outfit tha sells the A5 cahiers, but I wondered about the comparison.

 

Clairefontaine notebooks are no good. It must be Rhodia.

 

I'd appreciate your experiences.

[sodiumnitrate]

Love the Rhodia Bloc pads, but hate the fact they have to be ripped out to use the other side.

 

I've only just discovered a UK outfit tha sells the A5 cahiers, but I wondered about the comparison.

 

Clairefontaine notebooks are no good. It must be Rhodia.

 

I'd appreciate your experiences.

 

 

In my experience, it is. However, about 4 years ago, I bought a few pads in Turkey that had paper that wasn't as smooth. What I'm trying to say is that it should be the same paper, but rare exceptions do happen.

 

Just curious, why do you think clairefontaine notebooks are not good?

[lurcho]

Thanks for that.

 

I expressed myself badly when I wrote that CF was no good. CF is, of course, excellent. But I think they make the Rhodia Bloc paper a little harder, or less absorbent. Or so it seems to me.

 

I've been using very inexpensive Silvine Memo stapled A6 notebooks lately, and the paper is quite similar to that of Rhodia Bloc, if not as smooth. And then I found that Rhodia do a side-staped notebook at a very good price, albeit in A5.

[sodiumnitrate]

Thanks for that.

 

I expressed myself badly when I wrote that CF was no good. CF is, of course, excellent. But I think they make the Rhodia Bloc paper a little harder, or less absorbent. Or so it seems to me.

 

I've been using very inexpensive Silvine Memo stapled A6 notebooks lately, and the paper is quite similar to that of Rhodia Bloc, if not as smooth. And then I found that Rhodia do a side-staped notebook at a very good price, albeit in A5.

 

 

No problem

 

I think CF paper varies slightly across their products. I found the best one to be in the "my essential" notebooks. Their binding is not good, however. They are coptic stitch-bound, but they glue the cover to the spine, so the notebook can't lie flat.

 

I think Rhodia has A6-sized notebooks, but they are wirebound. I don't know if that could be an option for you. It might be possible to cut an A5-sized notebook in half so that you end up with two A6-sized notebooks held from the top by single staples. It would be like a reporter kind of notebook.