Fell for the hype and bought the $200 leather cover set

Got sucked into those Instagram ads for handmade leather notebooks. Spent $200 on a set with a cover and refills. The leather smells great but the paper bleeds through with any fountain pen. Super disappointed. Anybody else get burned by fancy stationery that doesn't actually work?

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the_ray12d ago

Yeah gavin_mason31 is right, once the bleedthrough shows up it's like the whole notebook is ruined. I had a similar thing with these Japanese notebooks I ordered online. Paid a lot for the brand name and the paper felt smooth but my fountain pen turned every page into a mess of ink spots and ghosting. Now I just grab whatever's on sale at the drugstore and test it with a pen first.

gavin_mason3112d ago

Fancier paper used to matter to me but bad bleedthrough kills the whole experience.

thomas_johnson3512d ago

Oh man, my buddy spent forty bucks on fancy notebooks and threw them all out after one page.