Moleskine Notebook – So Disappointing to use!


Posted on July 14th, 2006 by Merlin.
Categories: Journaling, Miquelrius, Moleskine.

classic moleskine

Well, last evening I just finished using up the last page in my journal I write my daily thoughts in. So, I decided it was a good time to use the Moleskine I was given. I have been saving this for quite some time. I guess I didn’t want to ruin it, since it seemed so special.

Well, honesty I really despise this notebook. I really was expecting more I guess.

My biggest complaint was that I love using fountain pens and I just received in my possession a really nice Cross Penatia Silver and Black Fountain Pen (I will post a review at a latter time). I was using some of my new ink I got Private Reserve Orange Crush. I love this ink and it just has a nice old fashioned and regal/rich look to it. Writing with this ink gives me a nice feeling.

Well I stated jotting my daily notes and flipped the page and guess what. The ink bled thru the page. So, I got out my trusty Lamy Fountain Pen with Noodlers Black Ink and it bled as well but not as much But still more then my liking. I guess I am used to using the Miquelrius Notebook. I am going to finish using the Moleskine But Can only use half the pages because the pages bleed way too much to my liking.

With this said I will only buy the Miquelrius Notebooks from now one. And they are much cheaper too. (Well they cost the same but you get more paper and a better quality of paper to boot)

 

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Allen H.

Comment on July 14th, 2006.

Completely agree. I believe I’m seeing varying qualities in the paper used in Moleskines. None have ever come close to the Miquelrius notebooks. Their lack of bleed-through and smoothness is excellent. The moleskines tend to feather for me, and the bleedthrough with a wet-nib is quite bad. What’s funny as hell is that Hemingway most certainly used fountain-pens. There’s no way this paper would have been acceptable to the FP users of the day.

In my studies last semester, I was a TA, it was really interesting to grade papers with my Fox Red noodler’s ink (Pelikan Red before Fox came out). The different types of paper were really really noticeable. Nothing like grading 54 papers to catch the wide range of problems. Some feathered horribly.

I kinda wished that Miquelrius had made Moleskines with soft-covers. That would be a notebook you could truly put in your backpocket with FP friendly paper! Their smaller 3×5′s are almost a good size for this, but they’re quite thick. I’m completely sold on Miquelrius after at least a year of daily Moleskine use.

Very glad to see you deal with this issue- Moleskines are definitely nice looking books, and if you’re using a pasty roller-ball, you’re in good… but the moment you go to real ink, you’ll see the difference immediately. I wished they cared about these types of things, but it’s painfully obvious that ModoEModo doesn’t.

Aaron

Comment on July 21st, 2006.

I have not experience this at all. I have use my Waterman Philieas (with the included ink), refilled that with some Parker Quink black, then filled with Noodler’s Luxury Blue, and now with a Lamy Safari with the included ink – all in all I am pleased with the way the ink is handled.

I will say this though, the quality of the molekines is getting a little worse each time I check them out.

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