Miquelrius Soft Bound Medium Journal, 300 Sheets/600 Graph Pages, Black

The best! Been using this as my project journals for over 15 years. Flexible, paper quality very good for fountain pens, grid is perfect size for me and just the right size to carry with you. Bought as many as i could when Border Books was closing. Really miss Borders!

This is one of my favorite all-time products. They are very sturdy, and incredibly economical. I've used them for journals for twenty years now. They come in different colors, I like the green and blue ones. Also red. Please note that these have grid paper. I want that, being an engineer. If that's what you want these are marvelous. This one is about my 16th over the years. If you own them a long time they will finally start cracking sometimes around the binder, but not if you use them properly.

I love this journal, it's perfect for my intentions (stats class) and exactly as pictured. It's size is a bit smaller than it comes off from the picture, about the size of a novel. The black exterior tends to get dirty quick and show fingerprints, but still feels very high quality. This is the notebook one would get to do research, take notes or devise a lesson plan; the grids make it perfect for writing of any kind to stay precise and organized.

I love this journal. I use it to sketch my drawings, color, and write notes. It has a lot of pages, but it's still compact enough to easily fit in any of my purses and bags. I've traveled with this journal and it is has held up well. I'm almost finished wth this book and I'm going to purchase another one pretty soon.

I bought the "used" version because, usually, it's a cosmetic issue so so small that I can put a sticker on it or the like. And, again, I was right. In fact, I couldn't tell the difference between the brand new one that I looked at last month at the bookstore and this one. One hot hair dryer later, I effortlessly removed the sticker on the back cover. The book is very lightweight and flexible. The covers roll and retract easily. I've yet to find a flaw in any of the pages - no milling or printing faults. And, if you like to bullet journal and want something with a smaller grid for more content, you'll like the grid size. If you're a drafter, you'll like it, too (it reminds me of all of my dad's drafting supplies when he was a drafter putting himself through engineering school; I ALWAYS had the BEST school supplies!) The reason that this is only 4 out of 5 versus 5 out of 5 is the page weight. Now, I wasn't expecting a heavy page weight. Heck, it's in the description. However, there is some ink bleeding and feathering with some common ink supplies. I like to set aside a few pages in the back to test different inks. So far, the Paper Mate Flair Felt Tip Pens are best suited if you want the least bleed through with using color. For just pens? Microns work REALLY well. I've been very happy with the paper to ink tolerability. Of course, Microns and micron types tend to do well. Sharpie is just OK for this paperweight. Even the Ultra Fine had some ink bleeding. I recommend putting a barrier between sheets. My barrier of choice is just a few heavy sheets of paper to get a more natural feel while writing, sketching, plotting, etc... **** Ideally, I've found that Micron pens and high pigment colored pencils (I use watercolor pencils for their pigment even when I'm not planning on using them for watercoloring; Derwent is my favorite) make for the best combo. If you just have to have INK, INK, and ONLY INK... the Microns and Paper Mate Flair Felt Tip Pens are your best bet.

Nice quality notebook but I hate the binding so much. It makes writing on the first few pages a chore because you have to hold back the cover. Doing this then bends the cover and it never lays flat again. Disappointing. Would have been great if it was a hard cover book.

I absolutely LOVE these notebooks! I've never been able to find a planner that has everything that I would like, so I a year ago I picked one of these up from Barnes & Nobles to use as a bullet journal. Like I said, it has been a year and I've hardly filled half the book. And that's with a calendar for the year, each month, and each week, plus several charts and lists for various projects. These notebooks are surprisingly sturdy and compact. Even the paper holds up an amazing amount. On two of the pages, I drew and erased (drew and erased, and drew and erased again and again) a design for a crochet project I was working on and the paper held up long past the point other papers would have worn away. I was really surprised. These are great for organizing information such as lists and charts, but especially anything where each section has to be the same, such as calendars. I recently bought a second of these notebooks to use as a reading notebook. I have a "form", I guess you could call it, for each book so I can keep information on the author, background info on the book, a list of characters, their traits & arcs, themes & motifs, and then any important quotes. But these are the kind of things this book is good for: lists, charts, and organizing information. Now I'm thinking of getting a third one to keep mythology and folklore studies in. The possibilities really are endless with these notebooks.

I order these to use as writing journals. I specifically use gel ink pens - Pentel 0.3mm or 0.4mm Arts pens - to write notes and to draw. This paper holds up long-term and the binding lets you curl, roll, bend, and abuse the journal without damaging the interior. Mine have laid mostly flat (i've got through 2 over 4 years). I've been afraid a few times that I've broken the spine, but ... nope. It's held together. People always mistake it for a Bible :D I highly recommend these if you want something that will hold together well, feels like a book instead of a spiral bound notebook, and has a TON of pages.