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Still loving my New Year's Edition. I journal in it every day. Aside from the one day I accidentally missed, this is the first time I've ever managed a year-long journal. It's just so much fun to write on the paper. :)

 

Is there any chance of getting a lined product anytime soon? I want to think the possibility was mentioned before, but now I can't find it. As much as I love the clean look of the blank books, and as much as my ability to hold a line straight has improved, I'd still be very interested in lined paper.

You can get lined Tomoe journals from Nanami Paper http://www.nanamipaper.com/products/seven-seas-writer-tomoe-river-a5-journal-7mm-lines.html

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Thank you, Jay! I just placed my order. Let the anticipatory waiting begin!

 

Splendid new journal, makes even my "scratchier" pens feel smoother when I write!

 

Also, just sitting there stroking the silky paper is de-stressing.

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Err, guys? You may want to look at this. You won't like what it says, but:

https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/index.php/topic/271987-is-tomoe-river-paper-changing/

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Is anyone else experiencing delays with orders from Paper for Fountain Pens? I placed an order a week ago and have received no shipping notification or any communication from Jay. I see he was last here a week ago. I hope everything is okay with him.

"In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act."

 

~ George Orwell

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I just took a large delivery complete with a very kind personal note. Sounds like your email's spam filter might be at work. Or his.

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Thanks. I'll try messaging him here.

"In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act."

 

~ George Orwell

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I've been sending him emails and not getting a response, however a - small - order has come in about a week ago, after a long transit time...

If you get a response via PM, please let us know?

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I just got the blank journal I ordered last week with a beautiful handwritten note from Jay. I am almost done with my last journal so looking forward to starting this one.

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If you get a response via PM, please let us know?

 

Will do.

"In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act."

 

~ George Orwell

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I heard back from Jay via email. I don't want to speak for him, but he has just been very busy for a number of reasons. He is catching up now and expects to have my order out in the next day or two. I'll assume that will apply to other orders as well.

"In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act."

 

~ George Orwell

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I ordered three of these and they arrived a few days ago fairly fast. They were well packaged, and the paper ( :wub: ) is amazing! Jay also wrote a handwritten note, which I always appreciate. I highly recommend buying this! 'lm definitely going to be back for more once I've finished mine. :D

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I just my second order, after having finished up the first one. I really love it. After having had one for almost a year and using a lined undersheet, I now am marching into this new journal without one and feeling pretty confident my lines will be at least a *bit* straight! :D

 

These journals are just what I like - hardcover, 5.5 x 8.5, TR paper. Thanks, Jay @ Paper For Fountain Pens!

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I joined specifically to leave a review. The notebook is absolutely beautiful, the paper dreamlike... I'm almost afraid to write in it. Shipping was super quick and it was packaged very prettily. :)

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I'm coming to the end of my Paper For Fountain Pens Tomoe River journal, and I thought I'd leave a review after writing on so many pages.

 

The journal binding is great. All the way through I've been able to get the side I was writing on to lie flat, even if I couldn't get both sides of a spread to lie flat. I generally only write on one side of a spread, so that's not a problem at all, and even if I did, a minor adjustment going from one side to the other wouldn't be an issue. I'll have to move the spacing guide I use anyway, since I can't manage a straight line without one.

 

I just went to a sci-fi conference and did a lot of note taking using a PFFP journal resting in my lap. The hard cover was an essential thing. I couldn't have done it with a soft cover journal. I've also got a quiver pen holder on it, and the cover is plenty stiff enough to hold up without warping. Outstanding.

 

The only downsides I've seen are paper specific:

 

Certain inks can take forever to dry. This is very much color by color. Noodler's Nightshade had to leave my rotation entirely while I used this journal because it just wouldn't dry. A few other colors are slow, but most (including most Noodler's) have been just fine.

 

The paper is super light. I print, rather than writing in cursive, so I need to be able to lift the pen off the page over between letters. As I approach the outer edge of the paper there's a tendency for the top sheet to start lifting up a little bit and flexing away from the papers below. This may be exacerbated by the spacing guide I've inserted between them. This makes it hard to consistently lift the nib all the way off the paper as I move between letters. This would bother me less if I was writing in cursive and only having to lift between words. As it is, I may stay away from TR journals entirely for a little while. I've got a tendency to buy journals faster than I fill them, so maybe this is just an excuse to work through that backlog of smaller capacity journals.

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I just got my first shipment of Jay's Tomoe River journal (the smaller-sized book) with blank cream paper this weekend, and I'm thoroughly impressed.

 

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(Turns out I was right about a significant portion of the equation was indeed the sexy Tomoe River paper, as I did tests of the Galileo + Prescriptor on other papers the next day and the only one that came anywhere near as smooth was R by Rhodia in Ivory.)

 

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And finally the back of one of the sheets to show the extent of the ghosting:

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Overall, I'm extremely pleased with the quality of both the paper and the binding. I love its elegant austere no-nonsense look and think it would fit in perfectly in a library shelf. Jay even wrote a little handwritten message about when the large notebooks would be shipping again (today, I believe!) since I inquired when I ordered this one. Maybe I'll be ordering that large journal sooner than I think! ;) Thanks, Jay!

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Thank you all for your great comments!

 

I just ordered 3 today and am looking forward to receiving.

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