Refurbishing An Oddly Sized Journal

[greyskyparadise]

Hi guys!

I was at the markets on Saturday and I bought a very lovley handmade leather journal from a very nice lady. Unfortunately, the paper in it (handmade) is completely unsuitable for fountain pens. It's like trying to write on paper towel or toilet paper or something. Anyway, I've spent the evening watching and reading bookbinding tutorials and I think I have a handle on what I want to do, which is take out the paper that's in there and put in some lovely FP friendly something or other which I have not yet decided on (and would appreciate recommendations on papers to look at).

 

The problem I'm having is that I'm really not a maths-y person and occasionally I will get embarrassingly confused by simple things like conversions and measurements. The journal seems to be non-standardly sized. It measures 7in x 5in on the cover and then the paper is 6 5/8ths x 4 5/8ths. or almost 19cm x almost 14cm cover and almost 18cm x 13cm paper. I have no idea what size paper I should be looking for to fold into signatures (I really don't want to fiddle around cutting paper).

 

If anyone could help me with this, I would be eternally grateful! Also, places to find nice paper in/around Sydney CBD?

 

Thank you!!

[jsolares]

i think it's B6 size (125 x 176 mm), you would need B5 to fold in half.

[mhguda]

Often the page layout of your wordprocessing program, or maybe the properties page on your printer, might be helpful, and provide page size dimensions. Good luck with your project!