Fabriano EcoQua Notebook, Small, Staple-Bound, Blank, 38 Sheets, Lemon

This sketchbook was recommended to me by an artist pal who travels frequently. This book is beautifully lightweight. I’ve used many mediums and it holds up shockingly well for such a lightweight paper. That’s said, WATER WILL MAKE PAGES BUCKLE. I don’t care. I love it.

Grid sizing is perfect for writing and calculations. Perfect overall size. Great paper weight, with smooth writing. Only issue is that sometimes the spiral binding gets deformed with lots of use especially in a full backpack.

These notebooks are a great Field Notes or Moleskine Cahier alternative. These are almost identical in sized to a Moleskine Cahier and a few millimeters shorter and wider than a Field Notes notebook. These notebooks are simple in a good way, without much branding and lacking the not-so-useful pocket on the back cover some other notebooks sport. The paper is of good quality, at least with the gel pens I use (Uni Signo). Writing can be visible from the other side of the page, but not more so than other notebooks in this class. The dot grid pattern is very flexible, allowing for multiple usage patterns in the same notebook.I don't know if this is indicative of the general quality control of these notebooks, but one of the notebooks I received had blank paper instead of dot grid paper for the first 4 sheets (each notebook is 16 sheets of paper stapled together and folded in half to make 32 pages with 64 page sides. However this concern did not seem to justify taking off a star compared to the other qualities of the notebook.All in all, a great value for a notebook. In total you get ~75% more pages of comparable quality for the same price compared to Field Notes and ~30% more pages of better quality compared to Moleskine. These are my go-to notebooks!

Growing up, Fabriano paper was a by-word for arts class. And long after actual Fabriano products became too expensive for our third-world market, fabriano (small case intentional) is the word one would use to describe high quality paper.Even though I spend hours at my custom-built PC, have a mechanical keyboard and manage a modest 50 words per minute, I still try to come up with any excuse to write rather than type (or swipe) whenever I can. How else can I justify my ever growing pen collection?Other than the occasional stone paper product. Fabriano and Clairefontaine are the only brands of paper I buy these days. Fabriano for dot grid paper, Clairefontaine for Seyes ruled paper.I always carry an Ecoqua pocket notebook with me. The dot grid is the most versatile, in my opinion, and the archival-grade paper is thick, satin-smooth, acid- and chlorine-free and just feels rich. Writing on it with ballpoint, rollerball or fountain pen is a dream. Though I prefer Clairefontaine paper for fountain pens the pocket-sized notebooks from Fabriano are better all-in-all; more pages, available in dot grid and I think the plain Fabriano covers also look better.On top of all this you get the satisfaction of being less brutal to the environment, though if that is your primary factor you should seriously consider stone paper.The only drawback these notebooks may have for someone is that they are staple bound. In reality, however, for this size, staple bound is the way to go. The notebook opens flat, its the most compact binding, and in the rare instant one is forced to commit sacrilege and tear out a paper it leaves the rest of the notebook intact.

One of my friends in school always had a grid sketchbook and I became obsessed with grid paper as sketch paper. She liked it for planning embroidery patterns. I bought an Ecoqua grid sketchbook on a whim(and because all my sketchbooks were packed because I was about to graduate), and I love it.These sketch/notebooks are a nice large size (A4)and securely staple bound. They are thin enough(40 pages) that the binding does not loosen over time. I previously used a lot of thicker, spiral bound sketchbooks, and the wire spiral was almost always a problem after a while. I like that they are thin and that I can fill them up quickly.The grid paper is great for the work that I do, because I lay out a lot of comic book-type pages and it's easy to draw panels with the grid paper! As a note, the paper itself is a more natural off-white and the grid is grey. I haven't tried to photocopy anything from this sketchbook, but if you are used to the more common blue grid that does not show up when photocopied and that is what you want, this may not be the best option.The pages are thin and you will probably have some bleeding if you are writing or drawing with anything heavier than a pen or pencil. I use a lot of marker and it will show on the following page depending on the type of marker. I have used this for watercolor and it can handle a wash, but it will buckle to an extent.I really liked my first Ecoqua and was glad the grid notebook came in a color other than black! These are my new favorites for sketchbooks and I am ready to fill this one up!

llego en tiempo y forma bien empaquetado, lo requiero para mi niña que dibuja, recomendable.

This shouldn’t be allowed, I received a pack of one, stay away!

This is advertised as a pack of 5! In fact there is only one! A lovely book but I would not have paid this much for one. Very disappointing.

It is advertised as a pack of five - only two arrived will not be ordering again

Solo viene una libreta de color amarillo, tiene un buen tamaño y es de buena calidad, las hojas son completamente blancas, pero por el precio para mi no valió la pena.