Stalogy 365 Days Notebook - B5

I love Stalogy and especially this size. No ghosting in any of my fountain pens, and quite thin paper though not as thin as Tomoe River or onion skin. But I can use fountain pens, fine liners and water paints! Yes water paints! The larger size allows my creativity to spill over - with space for painting, doodles and writing. I have stuck lots of sheets within my journal of photos, and sheets of Tomoe River and onion skin and Yamamoto paper and it does not bulge unduly. I have samples of all of my watercolour pencil crayons catalogued here, and ink samples and blots. I LOVE this journal. Please continue to carry it!

In a market seemingly flooded with high-page-count A5 notebooks, I am always on the lookout for the elusive perfect 100+ sheet B5 offering. I work in a laboratory where B5 is standard-issue, but most lab notebooks are not designed for fountain pen ink. The Stalogy 365 offers good performance with nearly all fountain pen inks I have thrown at it. Despite the thinness, I have not seen any inks actually bleed through, though some very saturated Noodler's inks in particular will ghost. This paper is often compared to Tomoe River, but Stalogy has faster dry times and thus will flatten inks out a little more than TR. It also has (very) slightly more tooth, which may or may not be to your taste. The grid is unobtrusive, the binding superb, and the cover durable. It opens flat (after breaking-in), and the page corners are nicely rounded. It's not perfect, but until a gridded Tomoe River B5 notebook with this many pages is brought into existence, this is the best option in its class.

I love the B5 format, and the design and construction of the journal is superb. The line spacing is not ideal for me; I prefer 7mm to 5, but that's a minor issue.

Alas, as good as the paper is (and it rivals Rhodia and Clairefontaine), it's not a substitute for Tomoe River for fountain pens, so take that into consideration.