FP Friendly 3x5 top bound notepad

[MABuckeye]

I use the AMPAD notepads in my police style flip leather cover but they're not really fountain pen friendly.  Anyone find any that are?

[bunnspecial]

What about a Rhodia no. 11? It's A7 size, which is roughly 3x4, but at least you know what you're getting paper-wise with Rhodia.

[RGH]

Look at the Mnemosyne range from Maruman. They've got a whole bunch of top-bound notebooks. I personally prefer the 5x8 ones (big enough to really take notes/ideas), but they definitely have others.

 

Very fountain pen friendly, thin paper (in a good way, for travel) and good double spiral binding. They're also not horrendously expensive (relatively speaking!).

 

Jetpens has a good selection but so do a number of the "usual suspects".  I got some double packs pretty cheap on Amazon a while back, but it's definitely more hit or miss there and they definitely don't have the entire range available.

[TMLee]

Try this, 

 

http://www.e-maruman.co.jp/products/detail.php?product_id=1490

 

This series of notepads come in all formats, plain, lined, square gridded,

 

and they come in different sizes too.

 

I remember seeing as small at 3x5 top bound.

 

HTH 

🙂

the paper is thin at only 60g , so you can expect shadow or showthru. But this is easily overcomed by placing a black sheet of paper under your writing page.

 

I use it for letter writing , cos it’s thin, and I can have a few pages folded over and it fits perfect in standard post envelope sizes.

 

the plain version comes with a sheet of line guides.

 

 

 

[TMLee]

1 hour ago, RGH said:

Look at the Mnemosyne range from Maruman. They've got a whole bunch of top-bound notebooks. I personally prefer the 5x8 ones (big enough to really take notes/ideas), but they definitely have others.

 

Very fountain pen friendly, thin paper (in a good way, for travel) and good double spiral binding. They're also not horrendously expensive (relatively speaking!).

 

Jetpens has a good selection but so do a number of the "usual suspects".  I got some double packs pretty cheap on Amazon a while back, but it's definitely more hit or miss there and they definitely don't have the entire range available.

+1

[MABuckeye]

The cover I have doesn't work well with spiral bound notepads as the stapled cover top slides under a leather strip which keeps the pad in place via pressure.  I'm using AMPAD pads (like a mini legal pad) but they only support writing on one side as they bleed through....

[RGH]

Looks like Maruman still have what you want

 

https://www.jetpens.com/Maruman-Mnemosyne-N178A-Memo-Pad-Modified-B7-5-mm-Graph/pd/11415

 

Now, this is graph lined, and I didn't look hard to see if it comes in any other format.

 

I'm assuming it's the same paper. And I can assure you that even though I describe it as thin (which it is compared to Rhodia), there is absolutely no bleed through, and precious little show-through (unless you use a 1.1mm stub?!)

 

ETA: And if you manage to fill your cart to their free shipping limit it's only $3.55 which isn't bad to try out.

I think you want to look at their "speedy-style".

https://www.jetpens.com/Maruman-Mnemosyne-Notebooks-Speedy-Style/ct/5289

[MABuckeye]

14 hours ago, RGH said:

Looks like Maruman still have what you want

 

https://www.jetpens.com/Maruman-Mnemosyne-N178A-Memo-Pad-Modified-B7-5-mm-Graph/pd/11415

 

Now, this is graph lined, and I didn't look hard to see if it comes in any other format.

 

I'm assuming it's the same paper. And I can assure you that even though I describe it as thin (which it is compared to Rhodia), there is absolutely no bleed through, and precious little show-through (unless you use a 1.1mm stub?!)

 

ETA: And if you manage to fill your cart to their free shipping limit it's only $3.55 which isn't bad to try out.

I think you want to look at their "speedy-style".

https://www.jetpens.com/Maruman-Mnemosyne-Notebooks-Speedy-Style/ct/5289

I'll check it out - thanks!

[bogiesan]

Jenni Bick has some molie reporters on sale: 

https://www.jennibick.com/collections/moleskine/products/moleskine-reporter-notebook

 

FP usage on molie paper is not an issue for me, been using my pens in my molies for decades. On the form factors, you're not likely to be using both sides of the page.