Notatnik Leuchtturm Master Classic w kropki czarny

***THE HISTORY***I am an angry writer.I'm a happy person, mind, but as a writer, I am frustrated by the lack of affordable, attractive, large-format, quality lined writing books on the market. Goldilocks visiting the world's smallest mattress store would have better odds of walking out with something she wants than I do digging through notebooks at the local OfficeMax. Or Barnes & Noble. Or Office Depot. Searching for great notebooks makes me cranky--I'd rather be writing!I produce about ten pages a day longhand. This pace means I go through notebooks quickly: anorexic, overpriced Moleskines, begone!Prowling for a new notebook online, I came across the Leuchtturm homepage. I loved the available sizes and exciting colors of the Leuchtturm 1917 notebooks, but they looked to be European exclusives. Luckily, Oscar's Art Books here on Amazon had one for sale in my color (red), size ("Master"), and paper style (lined).I'm staring at the book right now, and what I'm looking at is WRITING HAPPINESS INCARNATE.***THE BOOK***First of all, it's HUGE (8.75"x12.5"). But forget the dimensions--it's hard to find lined writing books larger than 5x7" with more than 80 pages in them, but the Leuchtturm has over 200 sheets of paper. I won't be zapping through this in a month!Second, it's bright cherry red. Bookstores are drowning in notebooks that are overpriced Italian leather in boring brown, or that have stupid hippie-looking illustrations on the front. (I like illustrations on my notebooks. Just not stupid hippie-looking ones.) The color is so refreshing!These two features alone would delight me to no end. But these next set of features that get me giddy--here's why:Whenever I buy a new notebook, I have some rituals.- First, I do is give it a title page that tells me the name of the current book, plus the name of the notebook that came before it, and what notebook will come after it.- Then I skip to the last 5 pages of the book and label them "journal pages."- Right before the journal pages, I label a page "Index" so when I'm done with the book I can find any extras I've written (for instance, maybe I'll write a poem on page 53 and have to skip my novel around it. My index let me know what page I can find the poem on).The Leuchtturm has:- A table of contents up front. You fill it in, but it's set up with columns so you can write in a page number and what's on that page.- Page numbers already written in.- A tiny envelope in the back cover so I can put tiny paper treasures in there. Yay, treasures!- Stickers--long ones for the spine and big fat square ones. "Please use these stickers for labeling the spine of your book when you want to archive it."WHAT THE HECK LEUCHTTURM you realize I might actually fill a book and keep it and want to organize??! Leave it to the Germans to solve a problem I didn't even know I had.***THE CONS***Sure, this puppy's price is comparable to some of those fancy Italian leather books at BN--but for the size, sheetcount, and details, I think it's well worth it.The only thing I'm iffy on with this book is the paper weight. The pages seem thinner than the ones in my CR Gibson bonded leather books (which are another fabulous product). I wonder how the Leuchtturm will take the ink. Guess I'd better go find out!***THE VERDICT***Leuchtturm 1917 = Writing Happiness Incarnate. Large format. Lines. Lotsa paper. Lotsa goodies.Amazon--please stock these. I would buy one in every color.

Papier 100g couché qui permet à l’encre d’un stylo-plume généreux de ne pas s’étaler comme sur un buvard. Le 90g de Clairefontaine est un poil meilleur.L’encre ne blanchit pas ni ne traverse la page comme sur le papier Moleskine, ou le Quo Vadis 70g.Le cahier contient 120 pages, soit 240 faces recto-verso.Deux faces sont réservées pour un index.235 faces sont numérotées.Deux marque-pages différent et solides, contre une seule tresse lache chez les concurrents.Une pochette en 3eme de couverture, comme les autresLa couverture n’est pas plastifiée, comme chez ses principaux concurrents.Tous les détails sont très soignés. Pas de bavures de colle entre les coutures des cahiers, par exemple. Il y a même un jeu d’étiquettes (couverture + bordure) pour le référencèrent au moment de le ranger dans sa bibliothèque , quand on l’a rempli.Le tout est complété - dans le modèle à pages en blanc, par une page guide lignée recto, et à petits carreaux verso, des fois qu’on en ait envie ou besoin.C’est dans les prix des Quo-Vadis de taille équivalente.Dernier point, la version « A4 » dont je dispose mesure 22,5 x 31,2 cm, un peu plus d’un centimètre par côté que la norme A4.J’écris gros, avec une plume Pelikan M1000 « médium » qui vaut une plume B chez Lamy, ou Mont-blanc, mais bien plus « mouillée ». Je suis très content du résultat ! :)

Sono i "quadernoni" di una volta con un'ottima carta e tanto tanto spazio per scrivere. La copertina è rigida e robustissima. Permette veramente di proteggere il quaderno anche da urti violenti e schizzi di acqua. A fine quaderno una busta a soffietto permette di raccogliere foto e documenti. Doppio segnalibro e due, tre pagine iniziali in cui redigere un indice. Fantastici. Fossero Mileskine costerebbero 40€.

Material duro se ha mojado con lluvia ligera y aguanta muy bien, lo he reforzado con cinta americana , robustez alemana compre un producto de 2 mano de amazon con un ligero arañazo casi ni se notaba a un muy buen precio.

I have been using A5 dotted notebooks for years, and tried "all" the brands. Leuchtturn1917 is what I have staid with for my past 5 notebooks. This is my first A4 book, and... OH MY! It is just more of a good thing! I will use it for my house book BuJo and got the bigger version to have more space to sketch out garden plans and such, and to tape in more labels I need/want to keepI like the Leuchtturm1917 for:- the paper can hold ink from fountain pens very well- the paper is smooth without being too glossy- the dot grid is just the right dimensions for my handwriting- the bookmarks are good quality ribbon that will not unravel at the end, or come out of the top. My 4 yo has been carrying and swinging my notebook around by the ribbons and they stayed put!- just the right amount of preprinted info: 1. please return to into section, 2. index, and 3. page numbers- the color selection has something for everyone and for any of my moods when I order a new book