Hello, everyone, I really hope you’re doing well so today, I’m doing a review of the Moonster refillable Christian leather journal. So it comes in this really attractive. Little gift box see right there, it’s the brown and with the gold logo on the front, so it makes it for a really great gift. Let’s open it up, and here is the journal, they have a couple different ones with different bible quotes. This one says “be strong and courageous for the lord, your god is with you” from Joshua, 1:9.
So makes a great gift for someone who’s into the Christian faith or for yourself as well, and then has this clasp here to open and close it and It seems pretty solid, you can see right there and it’s a busy brown dark brown leather cover. It is really rugged. Vintagey, look to it really rustic. So you can see the front in the back here and, as I said, it’s refillable. So it’s essentially just a lot of like flap and then you can, you know, switch out the journals anytime.
You want and the dimensions are 6.25 inches by 8.75 inches or 16cm by 22.2cm. So it fits a roughly a5 refillable notebook in there and then you can see right there.
You just have the flaps here to pop it in there and then this is the refill right there, the same in the back it pops in there and then you can also look at those doubles and has a little pocket as well. You can put some loose-leaf paper in there as well, and you have a little pocket here, for it looks like business card size items and yeah and they also sell these refillable notebooks online as well. So once you’re done with it, you can get refills on this pretty easily. So this is, as you can see like cardboard cover here and then goes into the notebook. The notebook has 320 pages.
It is lined and, as you can see here, this 8mm ruling the paper is pretty much white and there’s a margin around the edges here and if you break into it opens up nice and flat and you can see it’s stitched sure if I Can find the stitching for you real, quick right there stitched and bound nicely done, and I’m actually really impressed with the paper. I’m going to show you a writing sample in a minute. It looks very like very unassuming paper. It’S not fancy or coated or anything. It’S just you know: pointy edges here same with the as the journal, so it doesn’t look like much quite frankly when you open it up and in my opinion the lines are a little bit too dark.
I wish they were lighter to give it a little bit more sophisticated look, but then, when I started my writing sample, I was actually really impressed with the paper and how fountain pen friendly it is and that it doesn’t bleed through at all. So here is the pen that actually comes with, which I’m going to show you later and you have a pencil ballpoint pen, hybrid, pins, some gel pens and rollerball pens, and then we have two fountain pens: dye mine with both medium and ink. This one’s the pilot metropolitan with medium nib with diamond marine and then here’s the hero 30 with a food and nib, which is extra, broad nib with diamond merlot. And then, when you pop it over, you can see there’s some ghosting but for 70 gsm paper. I’m really impressed there’s absolutely no bleacher whatsoever, even with a super wet like extra broad nib, so it is definitely fountain pen friendly paper, as i said quite impressed with it.
I just wish they lightened up the lines a little. So the paper looks a little bit more sophisticated, which is my personal opinion, and then here it comes with this pen right there, which I think is really pretty, and it’s a nice touch, especially when you give this to somebody. It says legend right there, but then I try to open it up to see if it was refillable and it was working just fine. Before I tried to open it up and as I was fumbling around with it, I broke something in there now the tip won’t come out anymore. I’m gonna look later see if I can maybe fix it, but if you do buy this notebook, please don’t try to open this up.
Otherwise you might break the pen as well. It comes with a pen loop here that fits yeah depends on the size, probably not right for pencils, because it’s too big, but for fountain pens and little bigger like gel pens and roll balls. They might fit just fine and then the refillable notebook comes with a bookmark. I said it’s 320 pages or 160 sheets, and what’s also nice about this notebook is that part of the profits are going to be donated to a charity in Africa. So also doing some good by buying this notebook and I believe, the actual notebook the refill is made in India and then the leather is 100 full-grain buffalo leather.
I’m just checking my notes to make sure. I mention everything I think so. As I said, it would make a really nice gift for somebody who does some bible study, or you know, into Christianity. It’s a really nice quality notebook. In my opinion, because I like the fact it is refillable and I’m also currently using a monster journal that is non-refillable, and while I really love the feel of the thicker cotton paper that the non-refillable journals have when you write in them, you need to apply more pressure, so if you like letting notebooks – and you just do plain writing – this might be easier for you to just get through it because the pen will glide over the paper much smoother than if you were to use cotton paper.
It requires a lot more effort when you’re writing. So that’s another thing to mention anyways. As I said, I, like the looks of it. If you have any questions, feel free to leave me a comment: if you’ve enjoyed this video, please give it a thumbs up and for more notebook videos. Please subscribe to my channel.
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