Maruman Mnemosyne Inspiration 5 mm Grid 6.3 x 8.3

Paper is paper, right? Try this pad, it made me stop using my iPad or laptop for notes. Also, the Japanese shop is amazing! Really fast and friendly service.

...so we have that in common! The paper quality is very high and the fact all pages are micro perforated is a nice touch. The reverse side is blank which may not be liked by everyone but I like it. It is however expensive for what is, as you can get some great paper by Rhodia for far less - but it is coming from Japan! I will recommend this if you have some fat juicy stub or zoom nibs that throws out ink as this paper wouldn't flinch. You can also get some satisfying flex if your nib is designed for it and it looks jolly good. Finally any pad that has pictorial examples of what you can use it for and includes sketching puppies as an option HAS to score very highly. I think all pads should encourage sketching puppies as a lawful requirement. #satire

Cute, cute. It's essentially an A5 pad that's landscape oriented (instead of portrait oriented like other pads), with grids on one side, and blank pages on the other. Some people might not like this, and I don't know how I feel about it yet (I do like grids on both sides of the paper), but so far it's cute, the paper is quality, and it works for me.

Do not take this as a notebook alone. Each page can be taken out neatly. Great fountain pen paper. It doesn't get a five only because of price.

Smooth paper...great for pointed pen calligraphy and preparatory sketches or wc for projects...

通常の方眼、リングノートを利用していましたが、片面しか使わないのと薄手の紙が多く 満足していませんでした。 そこで方眼であり、片面のみ利用のノートを探してみた所こちらの商品がHIT。 まさか本当にあるとは思わず感激しました。 通常のノートだとリングに手が当たったり等でイライラさせられることが多いですが、 こちらだと横置きで利用できる為非常に良い。 更に万年筆の書き心地も非常に軽快。 表紙は艶消しブラック、裏面は固めのボール紙、 中野紙質も固めな為 全体的にしっかりとした作りとなっており、 鞄に入れておいても曲がったりよれたりなどは一切なく、大変満足です。

It was love at first write! I started using a fountain pen a few weeks ago and discovered I had not one piece of paper or any notebooks that were smooth to write on. I love grid paper but read that the popular Rhodia pads' grids are thick. After reading some reviews, I passed on all the usual suspects of pads and got this one. I am delighted that I did!! I tested a page with a number of pens including two that write really wet and none have any bleed or show through. One can write on both sides of the paper and it's a real delight. I didn't realize that the back was blank - what a bonus! Plus, you get cute but subtle Japanese cartoons of how to use the pad on the inside of the cover. Oh, the back is really solid. LOVE it! Enough exclamation points for ya? Ten stars!!! I'll never buy another pad of paper. Too bad it's ten times the cost of the same size pad at my local store. Who cares? It's a small luxury that goes a long, long way. Update: Still love the paper, but I hadn't used a flex nib on it yet. It seems to lay down thicker than on other paper and with a wet flow, using Pelikan Edelstein ink, there is some bleed through, though not enough to get on the next page. Still a great paper. There's no feathering, even with the seemingly thicker line.

This is the notebook I've been looking for. The quality of the paper is fantastic- you can feel it just by touch- and it takes ink well. I like the small graph, and the light grey lines make it very unobtrusive. I also like that it's really set up for landscape orientation, but can be used either way without getting in your way. If you're not familiar with ISO paper sizing, A5 is roughly the size of a trade paperback. It's big enough to have good room to write, but small enough that you can carry it around without feeling like you're lugging around a big notebook. I knocked a star off for the fact that Maruman didn't make it ruled on both sides. This is subjective for me, as some people might actually prefer having an unruled side, but I'd prefer both sides to have it.

I've purchased and used two Leuchtturm 1917 notebooks (dotted) and three Rhodia notepads (blank and dotted), and I have to say that the Maruman Mnemosyne is my absolute favorite of them all!! The other two are fantastic, but this one fits my needs perfectly. The paper is ultra smooth and thin, just like Rhodia paper, but I love that the spiral is on the widest part of the notebook. The paper is an off-white; it's not as bright white as Rhodia, but not as ivory as Leuchtturm. Keep in mind that this notebook has the light grey grid the front side and it's blank on the backside of each page. I doodle with my gen pens on the blank side, and practice pointed pen calligraphy on the grid side. With my dip pens, I use watercolor ink and black sumi ink with no feathering or bleeding, and minimal ghosting. I did find that super thin, very watery inks (like J. Herbin) WILL cause feathering and bleeding, but to be fair, I've had that problem with this ink on various different types of paper. The Mnemosyne can be used horizontally or vertically. I prefer the latter. The front side also has a tiny little bit of text in the corner, near the spiral binding, with some space to write the title and date. The pages are perforated for easy removal.