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I ordered these on line 25 February, 2011. They were shipped in a standard padded mailing envelope on 2, March 2011 from Portland, Oregon. Rcvd on 4, March in NM. I was charged a $1.00 postage, the USPS postage was actually $2.75. So I'm ahead on that. It came with 2 sets of Gift Tags, useable as book markers. Each book was enclosed in it's own glassine envelope. B4 we go to far here a couple of disclaimers, the usual no affiliation, just a satisfied client, I use XF and F nibs mostly with 7/10 wetness, I'm not an exotic ink user, in the past other observers on FPN said I was too lenient in my feathering, show through judgement calls.

These notebooks, Pocket size, are Staplebound with blank pages in colours to match the covers white, pale yellow and light blue gray. The covers are thick cardboard, similar to Molie Cahiers. I do expect that frequent daily carry will result in scruffs and bent edges. They have kitschie covers, see the redhorsehoe web site. This was appealing to an aging hippy. 3" x 4.75", no Elastic band, no ribbon bookmarker, no pocket on the covers. Strictly a daily utilitarian, jot it down for later notebook. 30 pages, 60 sides to write on. Printed in dynamic downtown Shanghai, China. Paper, of unspecified weight, feels like about a 24# copier paper in comparison. Plus/minus smooth surface. My nibs picked up no loose fibers and I use stilletos. The inks are a bit slow in drying, so smearing is possible, if you're inattentive. I'm a paper towel nappy kind of guy, so it was no issue to me. If you look closely at the 2nd inked page and the facing back of page 1 inked, you'll notice some ink which was from the 2nd page on the back of first page. That is due to my going back with the Planton/black Quink and noting nibs 14K or steel which I'd originally forgotten to do. Please note my Grading disclaimers. I'd say no feathering, no shadowing or show through on page 1. Back of page 2 shows a bit of showthrough, but not enought to prevent writing on both sides of the page. My pens, ink, and I found the notebooks excellent users. I'd hoped they were standard Cahier size so I could protect the covers with my heirphoto Latigo Notebook. No such luck. The cutesy covers will encourage me to use them. I've ordered the Larger Sewn Binding, lined with perforated papers. Clairefontaine makes a similar item with Plastic coveredpost-17575-0-21947500-1299284867.jpgpost-17575-0-55362400-1299284802.jpg covers, to minimize use damage and 90 gram white paper in a lined version, for $2.50 each. YMMV, Jim

Edit these photos are actually Page 2 and sample covers.

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Going to try to get Page 1 and the back of page 2 here. The other photo is Page 2 written and the back of page 1.post-17575-0-54556200-1299285160.jpg

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Thanks Jim. Been looking forward to your review. Probably no use in me buying them when I am a very happy clairefontaine user.

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This is the back of page 2. I'm in excess of my limit, I can't add this now. I will try again later. In House IT Tech cut the size down by a half, no go, and a third in size, still no joy. Maybe tomorrow I can add it in? I'm open to suggestions I apologize for the confusion, Jim

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Ordered the bigger size journals on Friday the 4th of March in pm. Shipped out of Portland on Thursday the 10 and in today 12 March, Saturday. These shipped Priority. USPS Fee $8.75, but I was only charged a standard $1.00 shipping. I'm making out like a bandit of the shipping cost. These are sewn binding, with perforated, detachable lined pages. Same paper as little one reviewed, with similar ink acceptance qualities. I was hoping for 3 x 5 size and then I could fit them in my heirphoto Latigo cover. No joy. These are 6" x 8.". Definitely no pocket book size here. Same colourful, kitschy, covers with cardboard, light weight material like on mini pocket ones. The design notebook comes in graph/squared paper, imperial and metric scales. Different cover designs on these. If interested look for redhorseshoe. in Portland via Google. Cost of big ones IIRC is about $6.50 vs little one $3.50, stateside. Jim

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