Rhodia DotPad Notepad - Black - 5.75" X 8.25" - 80 Sheets - 5 mm Dot Grid

If I could rate it six stars I would. I was a bit concerned about the visibility of the dot grid, brcause I find their regular graph paper too obtrusive for writing text. (I've only used it for diagrams though..) But the dot grid is perfect - neither too light nor too dark. And the paper is, of course, simply wonderful.

Fantastic Idea created by a company strong on quality. The dots offer the same divisibility of graph paper without the lines to get in the way. I use this paper to create Celtic knots. Since it doesn't have lines in it my ideas are very easy to see with noting darker than a .3 mm 2H mechanical pencil line. It is easy to erase and inks well. The paper seems to be the same used in the other notepads in the Rhodia line.

I can't recommend this paper highly enough!!

Unique, ingenious design. Its like graph paper without lines. I am artistically inspired every time I use this cool little dot grid notepad; it offers the guidance of graph paper without confining you to a bunch of boxes. Its not just about straight lines either, drawing curves, circles, symmetrical designs, and so on, becomes simple with the unobtrusive lavender dot grid there to help. It works for handwriting too (like those pre-dotted Campus notebooks that everyone loves).
My only complaint is the sizes. There's only this 3 & a quarter by 4 & three-quarter inch size and the 5 & three-quarters by 8 & a quarter inch which is basically A5. But nothing bigger :-( I don't know if that's just what Jetpens carries OR if Rhodia only makes those two small sizes.
Dot grids are so neat, and they seem fairly simple to design, so I wonder why more companies don't make them?
(In my Jetpens dreamworld, Maruman makes a Mnemosyne Dot Grid notebook 8-) and I just bought three 8-) lol don't wake me up yet, I have more imaginary shopping to do... )

Because of the rigidity of the cover and the staple, most of the top of the paper gets unused or is hard to access, but the paper itself is very soft and white.

Great notepad but...

When I order these pads I didn't pay enough attention to the dimensions. If your using them in the U.S. the size is larger than the standard 8.5"x11" making it hard to file the pages.

As it turned our this isn't a real problem as the pages aren't perforated so you can't remove the page without cutting it out of the binding.

Lastly, the stapled binding makes it difficult to use the back of the page as it wont lay flat.

Rhodia makes great paper products so tis review is more and admittance of my ineptitude than a criticism of their notepad.