Hello everyone, I really hope you’re doing well so today, I’m doing a review of the paper blanks flexes softcover notebook paper. Blanks has been around for many years and I have been aware of the brand for a very long time. I just have never gotten around to reviewing one of the journals, because their designs are absolutely gorgeous, but often just a bit too whimsical for my taste. Until I found this notebook, I think it’s absolutely beautiful and what really sold me on it was the gorgeous edges. Here, as you can see, this beautiful pattern, I’m absolutely in love with the edges of the paper here and that’s why I finally broke down and I bought one.
So I thought I’d share it with you and do a little review on it all right. So, as I said, this is a softcover notebook it’s from their flexus line. It’S uh also a little bit thinner than the usual notebooks. It has 176 pages. The dimensions are 7 inches by 9, inches or 18 by 23 centimeters, and it’s about an inch half inch thick or 1 centimeter thick uh. As you can see this the spine here beautiful as well, and then it’s this beautiful azure color, hence the name. I believe it’s called azure ultra and it’s based on the design of a book from 1688 and the gold, and it actually feels like it’s embossed into it, which makes it look more upscale in my opinion, and here’s the back and I’m not sure if the camera Picks it up. I think it looks more blue on the camera, but I think it’s actually more green in person. It’s like just turquoise, blue, green color, really really pretty.
It has, as I said, 176 ivory colored pages. This is line one. It’s also available as an online one and in several different sizes and all right. Let’S check just a cover page here, so there’s a brown cover page, it’s kind of like cardboardy craft paper type thing, and then it gets into the first page here and as you can see, there is a margin around the lines and there are 25 lines per Page and it is 8mm ruling and I’d say, the lines are dark gray. You can see right there and then that it has rounded corners and the overhang with the paper.
I’d say it’s about a millimeter and a half or so with the cover. So there’s a little bit of overhang here and you can see it is stitched and bound right there and it does lie pretty flat when you break into it I’ll show you real quick, there you go, it has a red bookmark and it also has a pocket In the back right there – and here tells you a little bit about the history of how the design came to be with this notebook. So if you’re interested, you can read up on it and it tells you here in different languages and I’ll show you my writing. Sample – and it is 100 gsm paper – said I’ve recolored, and here we have pencil, ballpoint pen, hybrid pen.
We have a gel pen and several roller balls and then with a pilot metropolitan, medium, nib diamond marine fountain pen, and here we have to hero 330 food and nib fountain pen, and the ink was a little bit dry on that pen because I don’t really use It very often so what you can see here is the actual pen has nothing to do with the paper.
The paper is pretty smooth. It gives you a really nice riding experience, so I’m definitely impressed with the paper and, as you can see, there’s absolutely no feathering with the fountain pen. So it’s definitely button pen friendly paper and with 100 gsm you don’t get any bleed through just feathering. I mean not feathering ghosting, that’s what I meant you get ghosting which doesn’t bother me.
If that’s an issue for you, then you need to find a notebook with thicker paper. So definitely some ghost not too bad in my opinion. So I think that’s about it for this notebook who said I love the design on this one finally broke down and bought a paper blanks. I can’t wait to use it really liking it. So if you have any questions, please feel free to leave me a comment.
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