I use kokuyo sarasara. It's a somewhat affordable option for taking notes in class

Maruman Mnemosyne

It shows a bit, but not enough to bother me.

Very little in my experience, but if you use very heavy, staining inks, it might be an issue. For example, Noodler’s Baystate Blue will show through.

Pretty! What a variety.

I love Cosmo Air, Iroful, and Kokuyo KB A5 business paper. They show sheen like Tomoe without being as thin.

Clairefontaine cheap 😭? I paid 4 euro for an A5 booklet a few years ago, in western Europe (but not France). I can remember Oxford being significantly cheaper and still quite good.

I love Clairefontaine paper a lot (Rhodia and also Oxford): it's cheap enough and works great with my fountain pens (F/EF). Tomoe River is an amazing paper but it's always way too expensive for any... regular and intensive use (even more so compared to Clairefontaine which is cheap enough for kids to use it in school), at least here in France.

I like Leuchtturm too, but it's also too expensive to my taste.

Thanks 🙂 Does the 80 g/m³ show through or have any bleeding in your experience?

Leuchtturm1917 for me. 80gsm also. And Midori/Traveler's notebook paper. I forgot if that's the same as the Tomoe River Paper. Those are my favourites

Where I live these better papers are prohibitively expensive to get a hold of and aren't stocked anywhere, so I usually go to the nearest Asian store and look at their notebooks. Even the cheaper ones tend to be better than the average paper from other stores.

Edit: These notebooks aren't going to change your life or blow your mind, but they're a good option in a pinch or if you have no better options

I believe this year was its second year running, so it's pretty new!

I hadn’t even heard about this!

Yeah, Iroshizuku was my first bottled ink, and I still have several bottles left. I just happen to prefer Diamine's color selection (which is vast) 🙂

Diamine, diamine, diamine....iroshizuku, diamine....

I see you have a brand preference lol Solid brand and always a good choice but funny to see so many all in one place like that.

Thank you!

I'd love to see that, please do 🙂

I'm about to refill all my pens. Maybe I should do a little what I've got inked 🤔

Nowhere near as many though, lol

Beautiful!

Beautiful.

Thank you! ❤️

This is a gorgeous photo just in general.

How pretty!

We also had to use fountain pens and learn cursive in school. My cursive is shit these days, and my general handwriting isn't too great tbh, but using nice pens like this gives me a good excuse to practice a lot.

It sure is, had my eye on it for years :)