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If you have a Staples store nearby, look for notebooks containing sugarcane fiber based paper. Also known as bagasse. These papers are great with fountain pens. Usually the notebooks in the store are spiral bound however. You can order reams of this sort of paper from Staples on-line for delivery to the store if you want to make up notebooks. For that matter, many here on FPN also advocate the 32 lb HP laserprint paper (NOT the inkjet paper -- inkjet papers have a coating to handle the inkjet inks).

 

I've also used pads and notebooks from Ampad -- the Gold Fibre series. Here again, YMMV.

 

Finally, for smaller pocket notebooks or even 5 x 8 journal size, I've lately found bound notebooks at Walmart, which were made in China that handle my fp nicely.

 

Check the paper and paraphenalia forums here at FPN for a lot of discussions along these topics.

 

 

Next thing I will do is check out a sugarcane from Staples. My strathmore home made sketchbooks also behave so well with FP ink! Ahh! Delightful! There are still some empty pages there.

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I second the Staples Sustainable Earth notebooks/pads. I have had no problems with them so far even with my broad nib VP which writes very wet.

 

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I second the Staples Sustainable Earth notebooks/pads. I have had no problems with them so far even with my broad nib VP which writes very wet.

 

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Do you have substantial show-through? I can only use one side of each sheet because of the show through, but I don't know if I'm just picky (or if I'm using particularly wet inks).

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I have discovered a 3-pack small notebooks in my inventory that work extremely well with FPs. They say ECCOLO in the back and i think I boutht them in WMart at $3/pack. Usually come with different themes.

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Do you have substantial show-through? I can only use one side of each sheet because of the show through, but I don't know if I'm just picky (or if I'm using particularly wet inks).

There is a little show-through but not enough that I cannot write on both sides of the paper.

 

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domination of the English. It is not for glory or riches or honours that we fight, but only for liberty, which

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use a rhodia notebook, it has better quality of paper

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Pens are like watches , once you start a collection, you can hardly go back. And pens like all fine luxury items do improve with time

 

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Eccolo notebooks are great to write on with every one of my pens. I've had zero issues with bleed through, ghosting, or feathering.

 

For loose leaf and spiral notebook paper I use sugarcane fiber paper, usually by Roaring Springs.

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