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I was just curious about how many people write on both sides of the page in their notebooks. If you do, what type of paper are you using?

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I was just curious about how many people write on both sides of the page in their notebooks. If you do, what type of paper are you using?

 

Well, it does depend upon the paper. If it doesn't bleed or show through, I'll write on both sides. Cheap notebook paper says to me, "one side only, please."

 

My journals currently have Arches Text Wove in them and they allow me double-sided writing.

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Yes. Moleskine

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My most important journaling is done in Levenger's Notabilia notebooks. These are full size notebooks with only one signature for two hundred pages. I can write on both sides of these pages if the nib is not too juicy and the ink cooperates. As I have purchased a rather tall stack of these notebooks, I use pens and inks that work well with them. Sheaffer italic F nibs in NoNonsense or Viewpoint pens and Platignum F pens work well with Noodler's Legal Lapis and this paper. J. Herbin Encre Noire and Spencerian Service nibs work well also.

 

I use Levenger's Stanley Desk Journal for a commonplace book. I can write on both sides of these pages with Quink blue black ink and a Sheaffer Snorkel F nib.

 

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I'm with punch. I'm a fan of moleskines and I'll use a Lamy safari with a Noodler's Zhivago or something similar - and use both sides of a thin papered moleskine.

 

If I'm dyeing to use a wetter nib, I'll get a moleskine sketchbook, you could use the wettest writer about and not bleed through those pages. Actually, I've used a broad tipped Sharpie and not had it bleed through. Now THAT's a torture test...

 

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I am a heavy writer and use the more wet inks. I write on both sides with a good opaque rag paper in my books. The Moleskines bleed thru for me.

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I was just curious about how many people write on both sides of the page in their notebooks. If you do, what type of paper are you using?

 

Both sides of the page, unless there's bleed through. My "go to" papers (Office Depot Platinum Series 24lb inkjet and 28lb color laser) do not bleed through.

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I'm right-handed so I only scribble on one side. I find that when I write on the "back" side of a page my hand runs into the notebook's spiral, and it really bugs me. But I've been thinking that I ought to turn the notebook upside down when I get to the end and work back towards the front, if that makes sense. Does anyone else do that?

 

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I write on both sides in notebooks, one-side only on pads. (I use them for vastly different purposes.)

 

I use mostly Clairefontaine and Apica notebooks...

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I write on both sides in my journal, as sermon notes (primary thing I write in my journal) usually take one side front and back, and one side front only, 1/2 to 3/4 of that page filled. I use a no-name journal I got at WalMart or Target, don't remember right now. But I use only pens which do not bleed or feather on the paper, and the paper is not as good as on my other journal, which is a C.R. Gibson, from Walmart.

 

My pocket notebook usually gets only one side written, as it is primarily for short notes, which shouldn't take more than the front of a 3 x 5 page.

 

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Provided that there is no bleeding and/or feathering, I write on both sides if I can. Since I'm right-handed, I can't fill the whole of the left page. I leave about an inch-wide gap between the last letter and the spine.

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I'm right-handed so I only scribble on one side. I find that when I write on the "back" side of a page my hand runs into the notebook's spiral, and it really bugs me. But I've been thinking that I ought to turn the notebook upside down when I get to the end and work back towards the front, if that makes sense. Does anyone else do that?

 

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No problems writing on both sides; I use Levenger Circa, Moleskine, and Clairefontaine.

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I never write on both sides of the page. I like my writing to have a clean, sharp contrast against a pure, unsullied page. No matter how nice the paper, or how cooperative the ink, you cannot consistently achieve that goal if you write on both sides.

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I'm right-handed so I only scribble on one side. I find that when I write on the "back" side of a page my hand runs into the notebook's spiral, and it really bugs me. But I've been thinking that I ought to turn the notebook upside down when I get to the end and work back towards the front, if that makes sense. Does anyone else do that?

 

- yumbo

Yep, just what I'm going to do with my Clairefontaine when I eventually have enough to fill it on one side.

 

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But I've been thinking that I ought to turn the notebook upside down when I get to the end and work back towards the front, if that makes sense. Does anyone else do that?

Yes, I do that, but it was not my idea. I think it was one of HDoug's postings where I read about that procedure for the first time.

 

I use notebooks from König & Ebhardt (Hannover, Germany). The paper is excellent for fountain pens. You can see when there's something written on the other side of the page, but the ink doesn't bleed through.

 

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But I've been thinking that I ought to turn the notebook upside down when I get to the end and work back towards the front, if that makes sense. Does anyone else do that?

I've done that with steno pads for fast note taking. Write on one side so you can flip pages quickly, and when you get to the end, flip it over and head back the other way.

 

For the original question, I write on both sides of any paper that will let me. Since I prefer fine nibs and have a high tolerance for show thru, that's been all but the absolute cheapest. If I get bleed through, though, then only one page (and I curse regularly and swear never to buy that brand again. ^_~)

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Depends on the ink I'm using. If there's bleeding, I use one side; no bleeding, I use both sides.

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