Kokuyo Campus High Grade CYO-BO Paper Notebook - Semi B5 (9.9" X 7") - 29 Lines X 50 Sheets - Red - Bundle of 5

Quite possibly the most perfect notebook paper in existence. Identical to the larger 80-page spiral notebooks, but with a glued binding. As a lefty, I like these notebooks better. They open flat. Goes great with a Kokuyo Systemic Notebook cover, also sold by JetPens. I recommend using the Systemic cover because the cover is somewhat fragile. Also, the corners of the notebook are easy to damage. The paper is outstanding. I haven’t found anything that bleeds-through or feathers on this paper.

Works absolutely excellent with fountain pen ink (except in case of rare, sticky, slow drying inks, Noodler's Blue Eel did not like to dry and smudged but several others I have used work wonderfully). No bleeding, etc, and is a nice texture to use easily. The lines aren't obtrusive either. Great product, I'm getting curious enough I might get the more expensive binding next time.

You think to yourself "Self? Would you pay $19 for a notebook?" Not if it was one you could get a Staples. American notebooks are basically cheap nasty paper only good for ball point pens - you can't use fountain pens in them. But wait! If you buy a pack of five you pay a little over $10 each. Still steep? NO!!

I journal every morning (well I try to) and I love to write with my lovely Lamy foutain pens filled with Noodler's inks. I've been writing in a Mead top spiral bound for years because they USED to be great notebooks. They are about $5 each and I have a pile of them. I'm also doing a lot of writing and I just generally use notebooks for lists, ranting and ideas.

I use a lot of notebooks.

I opened this notebook and ran my hand over the page. SILK!! I rubbed a page between my fingers and it's so thick and sturdy I almost cried. The line spacing was so small - I write very small and this is PERFECT! (I always buy college rule and it's still not small enough - this is perfect! Oops - said that already) I got my juiciest fountain pen that bleeds right through the Mead paper and tired it out. You could only see it from the other side if you held it up to some light.

I also use a lot of sketchbooks and prefer to work in 7x9 sizes. This is a little bit bigger than that and it would fit in my bag perfectly unlike my big honking letter size + spiral Mead. The cover folds back easily and you can work in this notebook with it folded in half, you are not forced to work flat. The wire is actually comfortable up against your hand (I hate having my hand on the spiral when I am writing on the left hand page thus why I use top bound notebooks). If I could get this in top bound I would be in heaven, but this is very minor.

Would I pay $10-12 for a notebook like this? You bet - I'm buying the five pack today. Sorry Mead - you just went bye bye!

Its definitely a great notebook, though expensive. The review before mine is accurate, paper quality is very good, the notebook is sturdy, and very enjoyable to write in. The paper is so smooth and obviously top of the line because at 80 pages its thicker than 100 pages of regular notebook paper, almost double the thickness/weight.
If you need a notebook for something really special, like a gift or a journal, give this High-grade notebook a try. They're probably too expensive for "'just" taking notes in class...but honestly, if you use the coupon or just want to splurge, its such a joy to write on these beautiful pages, you'll start looking for opportunities to write in them....

This is one of the strangest things I have ever purchased. I love it, yet it doesn't meet many expectations. I haven't written a review for another product because I've felt that the reviews that were written really described my experiences with the product.

The paper is the best paper I've written on. It's not high class in a fibrous, pulpy, tactile way. Instead, the paper is thick and smooth. Thick doesn't speak to how densely the fibers in a page are or how nicely Pigma Micron pens lay down a line on it.

The downsides are two-fold, the cover and the price. The cover isn't stiff or hard backed. For how much the paper enclosed cost to produce, a cover capable of lying flat should have been used. The bend in the cover makes writing on the backs of the first few pages—and the fronts of the last few pages—an annoying task. Packaged differently—as a professional business product—a leather cover could warrant a higher price altogether. But as product for academia, a sturdier paper cover is needed.

$21 is too much. As a real step above Clairfontaine and Rhodia—$10 for 80 sheets of A4—I would price this at $12.00 for B5, and $14.25 for A4. This is at the high end, I know many people would be priced-out of the market here, but it must be expensive to produce and make a profit on.

Even with a poorly engineered cover I would buy these again at $12/ea., and hope that Kokuyo produces an A4 size. For class notes, B5; for book notes, I really need A4.