Help me find a new A5 notebook to love
May 6, 2017 2:28 AM Subscribe
I've only ever used Nava's A5 Notes notebooks - main features: the simple design, ruled pages, selectable preprinted dates, tearable pages, and the range of coloured spine bindings. Nava no longer produces it, and, having pretty much sourced all local leftovers, I finally need to migrate to a new notebook.
What A5 notebooks you've used can compare/compete?
Everyman's Journal. It's a ruled journal with cloth cover, high quality paper and a sewn binding - everything you need and nothing you don't. Its simplicity may count against it if you're looking for organizational ease, though.
posted by givennamesurname at 6:54 AM on May 6, 2017
posted by givennamesurname at 6:54 AM on May 6, 2017
I am in love with the notebooks available from Muji. I use a fountain pen and thus need quite good paper; even their cheaper notebooks have been good (and none of their notebooks are expensive).
My current favourite is a ring-bound A6 with a dotted-grid on high quality paper - and it costs $4 Canadian.
They have a large range of products - A5, A6, B-sizes; ring-bound, stapled, glue-bound; plain, lined, grid, dotted-grid -- maybe one would fit your needs.
posted by jb at 7:13 AM on May 6, 2017
My current favourite is a ring-bound A6 with a dotted-grid on high quality paper - and it costs $4 Canadian.
They have a large range of products - A5, A6, B-sizes; ring-bound, stapled, glue-bound; plain, lined, grid, dotted-grid -- maybe one would fit your needs.
posted by jb at 7:13 AM on May 6, 2017
You might like the Rhodia pads. They have a pretty large line. My favorite notebooks by far are made in Japan, especially the Maruman "Mnemosyne" line. The best details on those are at JetPens unless you read Japanese. But Japan probably makes the best paper in the world.
posted by dis_integration at 7:21 AM on May 6, 2017 [3 favorites]
posted by dis_integration at 7:21 AM on May 6, 2017 [3 favorites]
The Stalogy Editor's Series 365 has preprinted dates and is available in several colors. However, sheets aren't perforated (the paper is comparable to Tomoe River--thin but with almost no bleed through) and the page is gridded.
posted by gnomeloaf at 8:45 AM on May 6, 2017 [2 favorites]
posted by gnomeloaf at 8:45 AM on May 6, 2017 [2 favorites]
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