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by picture 1650 days ago
The Clairefontaine paper used in Rhodia's Rhodiarama notebooks are also excellent. The soft cover Rhodiarama are some of the best paper for really watery inks. Another fantastic option is Midori's notebook paper, their whole design and the open grid option are really pretty. https://www.midori-japan.co.jp/md/en/products/mdnote/ Also if you're willing to over pay, the Kleid 2mm grid notebook with OK Fools paper are among the highest quality I've used. It has handy feature of detachable pages too.
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jen729w 1650 days ago
While we’re on paper, I have a Field Notes “Expedition” special edition. [0] It has waterproof paper which is ‘fun’ but actually pretty useless as ink doesn’t really hold.

So I had it for years and it went unused. And then I used a pencil! (Mitsubishi 9850 HB, thanks for asking.) [1] Oh and it is the most fun in the world! It’s like writing on a pat of butter with the tail of a fox. It’s the smoothest thing you’ve ever felt.

Now it lives in the kitchen and I record meat temperatures and whisky cocktail ratios and it is my favourite book.

That is all.

[0]: https://fieldnotesbrand.com/products/expedition

[1]: https://pencilly.com.au/product/mitsubishi-9850-hb/

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gcheong 1650 days ago
Fun fact - I worked for a bit in Japan for Yupo (the company that makes the paper of the same name and used in this notebook) as part of the project team that was overseeing the construction of the Yupo plant in Virginia. I was originally hired through an English language school on contract to help with editing the English translations of their technical documentation but also got to do some things like porting a sheet temperature simulator from MS-DOS to Windows.
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noahbradley 1650 days ago
If you want some waterproof notebooks that aren't quite as impractical as those Expedition ones (they always smeared for me too), you might try Rite in the Rain. Had a great time using those over the years.
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nephanth 1649 days ago
Clairefontaine paper is my go-to whenever I want to do ink-intensive writing (think calligraphy) I has beared the high debit of my noodlers ahab, and even my dip pens with flexible and/or large nibs, all of that with relatively watery ink (l'artisan pastellier's), and without ever bleeding through

Too bad that since I moved to America, I haven't been able to find paper that good for this affordable a price

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