Journals, Write On Both Sides Or Only One?

[mallymal1]

Moons and Junes and Ferris Wheels,

The dizzy dancing way you feel,

When every fairytale comes real...

 

Sorry!

 

Both sides, now.

[white_feather]

I have used Black and Reds, then moved on to Moleskines but I just saw that 'journaling' uses those Mead Composition books and I am wondering if they are any good? My Dollar Store has them and I could get a lifetime supply there. I write with a light touch, I just wonder about bleed through.

[Sailor Kenshin]

For what it's worth, I love comp notebooks.

 

Bleed-and-show-through also depend on your ink and pen combo. If they are cheap why not take a chance on one? I love the no-names with paper made in India.

[WhosYerBob]

Depending on the paper and ink, I normally use both sides.

[Bor]

both sides and trying to fill up the pages as much as I can, too many journals, too much paper...

[zquilts]

Brilliant. I think I have to do this!

 

 

There's also the possibility of writing only on the right side, then turning the book upside-down and continuing on the right side! Great for righties, and can be reversed for lefties.

 

 

Great minds think alike... pure genius.

 

 

 

[Gcouch]

Both sides. In my opinion, a moleskine (my notebook of choice) is too expensive to just use one side

[Gloucesterman]

Moons and Junes and Ferris Wheels,

The dizzy dancing way you feel,

When every fairytale comes real...

 

Sorry!

 

Both sides, now.

Cool, very cool!

Thanks!

[ac3y]

In my Moleskine, I only write on one side because the bleedthrough is out of control (I got the notebook before I got into fountain pens). I have a Leuchtturm that I use as an ink journal and I use both sides; I think I'll get more of those to use as pocket-size notebooks. My other size papers are higher quality, so I write on both sides in those.

 

Now I want to know if anyone writes on both sides in flip style pads! How do you accomplish that?

[daTomoT]

I always write on both sides. I'd see it as a waste of money if I didn't. I bought a standard lined notebook (unbranded, cheap) for college which is huge, and a Rhodia Staple Bound (only £2) for personal. They wouldn't last me as long if I didn't!

[PenCity.com]

So now that it has been a few months, how do you like your Cavallini Roma Lussa Journal?

[iamchum]

One side, I have an issue where I write very quickly. sometimes to the point of the ink not drying when i flip the page. So I sometimes get splotches on the other side that aren't bleed through.

[Runnin_Ute]

Both sides mostly.

[Edwaroth]

I like to use both sides but I don't do it all at once. I write on all of the front sides, turn the journal upside down, then write on all of the back sides. I find it more comfortable that way because my hand never has to be sitting in the gutter of the book that way.

Ha...I do the same and for the same reason. A'ight!

[Ed01]

The level of bleed through determines whether I write on one or both sides. Of late it has been one side only due to the cheap quality of the paper I am using plus the fact I was using my Parker 45 Rollerball that bleeds through a bit more than my fountain pens

[Horseknitter]

Just a quick FYI:

 

If a text is written on one side only the manuscript, parchment, or book is known as an anopisthograph; if text is written on both sides then the product is known as an opisthograph.

 

Anopisthograph comes from three Greek roots, it first gained popularity in the 1870s. Merging an (meaning not) with opistho for 'back referring to writing on both sides of a leaf or page, and 'graph' from graphos, meaning 'drawn or written'.

 

[vdiantonio]

Both sides, but bleed thru hasn't been a problem with the xf nibs I use.

[Harlequin]

I send a journal to my friend and in it I write on the right side pages. When she responds she write on the left side pages. It works pretty well because she is a heretic and only writes with a ballpoint pen. :roflmho:

 

That is an absolutely great idea! Is it ok if I steal it (when and if I ever get the chance to share a journal with someone, that is)?

[jacksterp]

Currently using an Ecosystems journal and both sides.

[BMG]

I have always written on both sides and never thought much about bleed through -- sometimes I got it, sometimes not but I never worried about it.

 

I'm not worrying now, though it is beginning to bug me. I'm going to try another notebook or two, but am looking for something with a "quiet," minimal design like the Moleskine's, whose aesthetic I like but whose paper is thinner and with more show through than I'd like.