Top positive review
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A pretty journal: good quality, with numbered pages!
By Linda Martin on Reviewed in the United States on July 7, 2018
I've been using this journal over a year now, and really love it. It still looks awesome on the outside... and on the inside, well, there you'd find my private thoughts and artwork. I use this notebook exclusively with fountain pen inks... a variety of inks. Usually there's no bleed through. Occasionally there is. As an artist, my challenge is to make the bleed through situations into something beautiful. I find that to be a lot of fun... so am staying positive and not complaining. This is a great notebook for writing in. There's an index of several pages at the beginning, and the pages are numbered, so it is perfect for use as a bullet journal or writer's journal, or whatever you like. The pages seem kind of thin, but still good quality. I have other bullet journals with thicker pages. But it is what it is and either you like it for what it is or you don't. I would not hesitate to buy another journal like this one, when this is full. However - if I was to do it again, I wouldn't limit myself just to fountain pen ink in this journal. Probably there are other pens that would be better for this one, like the Staedtler Triplus Fineliner Pens which are bright and beautiful and will not bleed through. (I just tried them on my pen check page at the back of the notebook, and they are perfect for this thickness and quality of paper. The cover of my Leuchtturm 1917 is hardcover, and the color is pink... what they call berry. It is so pretty. I'm glad I bought this one. It comes with the elastic, as pictured, and there's a nice sturdy pocket on the inside back cover. I've found it very handy for smaller items I pick up during my travels. The endpapers are white... a sort of creamy white. Everything about this notebook journal speaks quality. I've used this as a travel journal, for recording quotes, and as a memoir journal, using a prompt book. I'm not using it for my daily observations of life, though it could be that type of journal if need be. I do a lot of ink painting in this journal. I use the same inks I put into my fountain pens - Noodlers Inks in a variety of colors, and De Atramentis® Document Ink. I've also used the Pilot Varsity Disposable Fountain Pens in this journal. It does well with all, but as you can imagine, if I put on the ink too thickly there's that risk of bleed through... so I've learned how much to use, and how much I can get away with layering it before the ink goes through the paper. It is a learning process. Recently I used a pen with a medium nib, and that bled through. Not good... and usually I use the extra-fine nibs which are better for preventing bleed through. Not a problem though - I turned the page and used the bleed-through page to create a bit of art using fountain pen ink applied by water brushes. I like the way it turned out even with the bleed through - it became part of the art. So, if you're looking for a good quality notebook with thin paper... numbered, with an index and pocket, this could be the right journal for you. I recommend it. I like all the colors, especially the berry pink which is so, so pretty. No complaints from me.
Top critical review
25 people found this helpful
See through pages!!!
By Cleanin' Mommy on Reviewed in the United States on November 3, 2017
Behold, my longwinded review. But first, stop reading, go look at the first few reviews in ALL the star rating categories, and you'll notice they all say the SAME THING--see-through paper. (However, the 5-star guys will go on forever, like I do, while including some things they DO like about it. The one star guys are just mad and want justice and just say the paper is bad and move on with their lives. But they are essentially all saying the same thing, just with more or fewer words!! So if you really look at it EVERYONE is saying the paper is bad. Everyone. Soooo disappointed in the pages. I had seen the name (Leuchtturm1917) all over when looking for "the" bullet journal to try, but I can't understand why people are obsessed with THIS particular one, since there are others out there that likely have MUCH better paper that you can't actually see through!! After overcoming my initial "what the heck do I start with" and "I'm afraid I'll mess it up" (I did!) thoughts and painstakingly finishing my first page and turning to the next, I immediately saw--THE GHOST! Yes, you can see everything you wrote on the other side of the page, not through just ONE page, but multiple pages. In other words, turn two or three pages and you can STILL SEE what you wrote on that first page. So sad. Before switching to this two days ago I was using something about a medium Happy Planner size (9something by 7something) that i had created from scratch myself with all the right spaces and checklists and trackers I needed to my exact specifications. I worked on this FOREVER. I had created and printed my own dot grid paper using a very heavy, smooth HP bright white paper (LOVE IT!). I invested in a Levenger punch to make it my own disc-bound planner. I have a zillion pens (but can't write pretty to save my life). I have oodles of stickers. I have washi tape. I made it cute. And fun. And color coded. But I just didn't use it consistently and it wasn't working for me, and I had post-its and scrap paper and backs of envelopes and messes of information that I couldn't keep track of. That's when I realized I needed to take the bullet journal plunge. A friend showed me hers (very simple and un-Pinteresty)--a Leuchtturm1917 hardcover medium dotted journal, and raved. I thought it was nice, and ok, so I went ahead and ordered one, based on the majority of the reviews here on Amazon being 5 star. Not impressed. However, I haven't had any problems with ink bleeding through yet (I've only used Micron black pens and a few colored Stabilos so far--keeping it super simple and clean), although it has smeared. I REALLY like the size, even though I thought it might be too small for my needs and hard to get used to; but it is working nicely. The dots are spaced just right so I can get a full month calendar on a two-page spread with enough room to write (small) my appointments and events in each square. The dots are spaced nicely so my writing is not squished together. I am writing TINY in this book though. The inside edge of the cover where the cover material folds over the corner and glues to the inside is sloppy and pokes me. I will actually have to snip the edge of it to smooth it out. That seems unacceptable at this price point. The Emerald color I chose is nice, and the pocket in the back seems handy (haven't used it yet). I like the 2 bookmarks, the elastic band, and the fact it lies pretty flat when open. The index works well for me--lots of space on each line. Overall it will work for my needs, and since it has so many pages, I'm going to fill it up before I buy something else, so it will be awhile. But I think I'd look for something with thicker pages--which of course would mean you'd have fewer pages in the same amount of space--so that it would look cleaner and less messy. Maybe it will grow on me--seeing all that writing through several pages. Stranger things have happened.
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