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In my office notebook (that I use mostly on meetings/) were just a few empty pages left. I could wait for someone to give me a notebook (the standard New Year holiday procedure here is to give promotional notebooks and calendars to business partners and customers), however for some reason I ended up in the book and office material store this afternoon and after drooling over the pen section (they had Waterman and Parkers) I saw Moleskine notebooks...so I decided that I need one.

 

Here it is (together with a small one weekly planner that I bought in June)

 

 

 

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The really good news is that the Pelikan 4001 / M800 combination works perfect.

 

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More impressions to follow.

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That looks like one doozy of a Swiss Army knife on your desk! I'm surprised there's not a fountain pen in there.... :eureka:

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That looks like one doozy of a Swiss Army knife on your desk! I'm surprised there's not a fountain pen in there.... :eureka:

 

 

True. I have two of them. The red one even has a small BP. The reason that I have it is my father. My basic education is agronomy with major in fruit growing and when I was younger and worked with my father in the orchard on the farm we always had to tie young trees and cut the string and he was giving me hard time when I had no knife saying "a good fruit grower always carries a knife"....So I had no choice....

 

 

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Indeed, a pocket should have a knife in it and the Swiss army seem to have cornered the market for the ideal pocket companion. I have... um... lots!

 

Like pens, they tend to accumulate :roflmho:

 

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You'll get hooked on those Moleskine note books. Among other Moleskine books, I have 6 spare large MS notebooks. I mostly use Retro 51s and MB ftn pens with them.

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I've heard rumours that the paper in Moleskine books is not always the greatest for FPs, true or false?

 

True - can be (mostly is) terrible. Some people on FPN love them - most have problems with varying paper quality from notebook to notebok. I am anti Moleskin generally but did buy one of the new A4 ruled and the paper is very good. If you like a particular Moleskin buy one and try it with your pen/ink combination. You may be lucky.

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I've heard rumours that the paper in Moleskine books is not always the greatest for FPs, true or false?

 

True - can be (mostly is) terrible. Some people on FPN love them - most have problems with varying paper quality from notebook to notebok. I am anti Moleskin generally but did buy one of the new A4 ruled and the paper is very good. If you like a particular Moleskin buy one and try it with your pen/ink combination. You may be lucky.

 

If the quality is that sketchy, what's the attraction?

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I've heard rumours that the paper in Moleskine books is not always the greatest for FPs, true or false?

 

i use quink and that works quite well with a moleskine

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I picked up one of these today, ruled (the close-to-8-1/2"x11" size), with the 100g/m^2 paper. I wrote a test page in the back with the 12 pens I have with me (lots of different pens, nibs, ink brands and colors, wet, dry, etc.). I am VERY impressed with the improvement on quality. I flipped through the entire rest of the book, seems to be the same smooth heavy paper throughout. While I have some Piccadilly notebooks set aside as future journals (though they are sometimes infuriating), I am seriously considering switching to these for my journal. It's pricier, but I'm supposed to enjoy writing, not be frustrated by it and feel like I can't journal with some wet/broad-nibbed pens...

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