Green Inspired Pocket Notebooks
This is my first review. I'll try to work out a decent format as I go! Green Inspired Pocket Notebooks 3.5" x 5.4375" (They'll fit Field Notes sized Fauxdoris) 14 sheets. 28 pages. 56 sides. $3.99 for a pack of three! Available exclusively at Target
This is the packaging. Hurray! Three notebooks in shrink wrap with a slip of paper showing off the designs and various info.
These are the designs. There may be more, but the packs I found came with these.
They have these cool gold shiny inlaid shapes in the cardboard covers.
Whoa! Side stitching. Very classy.
But not very well done. I got two packs (6 books), and half of them had very off-centered stitching. Quality control issues!
The inside! Green printed covers on the inside. The lines are printed in the same green. Pretty cool. Pretty... pretty.
More quality control issues. The lines are all over the place. I could not find a single page with straight lines. Some pages are absolutely ridiculous. This is a good average look.
This is the back. Printed on the bottom. I wonder if the pages were designed to have wavy lines or if that happened in China.
Finally! The writing portion! I apologize for my handwriting. I will try to work on that in the future.
The paper is smoother than Field Notes paper but not as smooth as Rhodia paper. It was nice to write on. As you can see by the smudgey smiley faces, this paper took forever to dry.
But the ink was well-behaved otherwise. Not much feathering. Just bad handwriting. Also it's worth noting that the fountain pen ink seems to have a hard time drying on top of the green lines. Must not get along with the ink they used to print them.
This the the reverse side of that page. No bleed or ghosting. Also this page had the straightest lines in the whole book.
I decided to test my other pens because they are all wetter. The inks are whatever came in the catridges for the ohto and sport, and noodler's cactus fruit eel and black for the other two. (I trimmed this book to fit my passport midori, they don't come frayed) still no feathering, but...
Wetter pens bleed through. :( Verdict: If your pens aren't super juicy or you don't use fountain pens (or don't care about using both sides of the page), you should probably consider these. The wobbly lines are excusable considering the price. UP NEXT : Scout Books
