Leuchtturm 1917 Black Slim Master Notebook Ruled

Those Leuchtturm notebooks are great. They come in a whole range of beautiful colours, formats, line patterns ; the cover texture feels nice, the paper is of good quality with a nice slightly yellowish/cream "oldschool" colour, the pages can be opened flat with relative ease. The notebooks also come with additional features such as an index page you can fill, numbered pages with small margin on one side, place to write the date on every page, stickers for labelling the book and a pocket on the last page to store any kind of additional documents. You can buy a small elastic loop to stick on the notebook to hold a pen. All those additional features are relatively discrete however if you like your pages to be clear of anything except your writing this might not suit you. Other than that, it's always a pleasure to store and get those notebooks from the shelf and write something in them, they might cost more than the average (to be confirmed) but I do not regret my money at all.

This is the stuff. Ever so slightly larger than A4, this is now my go-to notebook for laboratory work and professional work. Leuchturrm prides itself on the little details, which is evident in this notebook. Firstly, the paper is ivory colored, since white paper is often too bright to write comfortably on. This notebook also has a contents page and page numbers, which is handy for finding specific sections - as far as I'm aware this is the only notebook with this features. There is also a large envelope attached inside the back cover, and since the book is oversized A4 you can easily fit documents in here. There are also perforated pages towards the end of the book for easy removal of notes and there are also archival stickers. It's also fairly fountain pen friendly, though some inks (Baystate blue, namely) do bleed through a bit. Most inks are fine though, including those by Diamine, J. Herbin, and Waterman.

I purchased this note pad a little over a week ago, delivery was supurb. My intention for this pad was for both my work and my college course, however upon receiving it, I feel as if I may have find one a little less... Nice. As I think my random scribbling will take away from its elegance, It is as if I was to take a black sharpie and write all over a Lamborghini... There is over 120 pages for you to fill with ingenius ideas, the quality of the paper is brilliant and with numbers at the bottom of the page it makes It so easy to reffer to pages, there is virtually no bleed when using ink pens. The overall construction so far has proven to very rugged and is of a very high quality. If you are looking at a few of these, make sure to get the master, as any loose pages you have fit right inside without the possibility of them being bent, creased or torn, would definantly give this 5 stars as it truly deserves it.

This is the third LT A4 I've purchased and used, I use it for my university notes and the paper quality is vastly better than the A5 notebooks, that is to say there is little to no ghosting, the weightier paper makes it suitable for heavier duty work than its A5 counterpart, (which I find unusable even for ballpoint pen or pencil use nevermind felt tip or watercolour use) the size is ideal and the paper colour is easy on the eyes and the dots are the perfect weight, spacing and size for what I use it for. These notebooks are well worth the money if you take pride in your work and appreciate having organised and easily legible work, the page numbers are endlessly useful but there are not enough spaces in the index to write every single page number, which is perhaps the only fault I can find with the books, hence the 4 stars.I use one book per semester, I study law which involves a lot of writing (with 3 modules per semester) and they fill the 123 pages perfectly. This makes for very easy referencing back on old work, particularly as the pages are indexed for ease of finding a particular set of notes.

The note book is of very good quality and is easy to write on the high quality paper with my fountain pen. Highly recommend this note books

I think these are the best notebooks on the market. The best from the point of view of quality and features.The cover is strong, the rubber band as well and the paper is fine, but strong. In terms of feature, I do appreciate the two 'markers' (fabric ribbons), the ToC and page numbers and the stickers that I use to label the many books once I 'archive' them.I do have one dislike and one caveat. Dislike: for me, a loop for a pen is missing and to add insult to injury, you can buy one for £2.50 !!! crazy!Caveat: the variety of these books is mind boggling and the way the Amazon site works, it is very easy to end up with the wrong book depending on availability of your desired combination of plain/ruled/..., colour and possibly size. In my case: I selected 'ruled' paper and went through the different colours to check prices and how the colour looks like on a larger pic. As soon as I hit a colour that is not available with ruled paper, the type of paper switches to what is available, eg plain. Suddenly, I am only looking at plain paper books... This means that you keep toggling all criteria and are also looking at the price (which can differ between colours).

I found the options confusing on the Amazon entry, but ended up with what I wanted. Dots at 0.5cm which gives the option of small writing when that is being done, or larger writing if you want to make use of a full 1cm spacing. The dots are strong and close enough to guide writing and to act as a kind of line, but faint enough not be be noticeable when reading what has been written. Easy to mix graphs, text and images on the page. Lovely to have a physical book for some things, instead of a Word file buried on a computer somewhere. Physical things do have advantages sometimes.