I love coffee and reading and am so glad I found you Alexander! I intend to buy your books. I'm also into fountain pens since I had hand surgery. I'm always Journaling and writing the Bible. I'm learning things more deeply by writing it. The pens are a huge help. Looking forward to your next video. No rush. Blessings

I really enjoyed your video, Alexander. It was interesting and you introduced the differences between the journals in a very clear and lovely way. I didn't know Lochby, great to know this brand, I will see the other videos you made about them. I use the Traveler's notebooks most of the time, but I also have Moleskine (I use the Kraft Caher L, soft cover) and Leuchtturm and they are wonderful, but I really love the traveler's notebook system the most, because of the idea of taking out a finished insert and put inside a new one! But I really love the others as well. Leuchtturm has such a wonderful quality to the papers and covers and Moleskine is wonderful when it comes to writing freely. I haven't tried Galen Leather yet but I heard they are really fantastic. Such a great review! Thank you so much for sharing and congrats on your new book!

I prefer the Leuchtturm over the Moleskine. For me, the Moleskine paper was too rough for me write with my fountain pens on it.

I'd love to know what pen and ink you're using to ever say these words in the same sentence...... "Moleskine" and "great paper" where fountain pens are concerned! Wow. They are well known for the worst paper possible. Anyway, I'm glad it works for you 👍🏻 I still love Moleskine but won't use one again until they sort the paper out, unless I'm using a biro, in which case yeh I'd carry my Moleskine pocket book 🙂

I just can't make the Traveler's Notebook system work for me at all. I don't like the size of the paper, it doesn't lie flat, and it's just too restrictive for my personal needs. That's not my experience with Leuchtturm and Moleskine. It may be the inks I use, and the medium nibs I use, but neither paper is good at all for me. I get extreme ghosting, and some bleeding, with both brands. I will say the new Leuchtturm with 120gsm paper is a different story. It handles my fountain pens just fine. Moleskine is just terribly inconsistent. One will be great, and the next will bleed like crazy. Moleskine paper is made in at least three countries, and most say this is what causes the inconsistency. Probably so. I do sometimes use both the 1917 and a Moleskine, but never with my fountain pens. Right now, I have the Moleskine expanded notebook. Four hundred pages. Fountain pen users seem to have figured out that a blue quality control sticker means high quality, fountain pen friendly paper, and the other colors mean poor paper that will ghost and bleed. Anyway, I am enjoying the expanded notebook. I just wish I could use my fountain pens in it, but I tried on the back page and they bled right through. I almost never use a pen loop. I carry several fountain pens wherever I go, so I use a pen pouch. I also carry a notebook, a small graphite drawing kit and a small watercolor kit, plus just a few other goodies, so I either take a messenger bag or a small backpack wherever I go. I even carry a small fishing kit, and my walking "stick" telescopes into a fishing pole. I like to fish as I'm writing. My family makes me carry my Fire Tablet and a cell phone. I've had two heart attacks and they worry. I was a professional writer for thirty years, right up until I had a massive health crisis about twenty-five years ago. It took years to get back on my feet. Now I'm slowly starting to write again, and back to buying far more notebooks than I need. I've always used the Oxford brand of Black n' Red as my personal journal. I bought my first in 1969. I still love the Optik paper, and the way they look on a bookshelf. But I can't resist buying just about every notebook I find. Fortunately, I have grandkids at about every stage of school, and I pass any notebook I don't like to them. They each probably have enough to get them through school. Maybe even college. Anyway, I sold five novels under my own name, several with pseudonyms, and even more under in-house names for publishers. I also sold somewhere around a hundred short stories to magazines. Unless I messed up and let a deadline get too close, I always wrote in longhand. I did accept very tight deadlines now and then, and just didn't have time for longhand, so I had to use a typewriter or a dedicated word processor, if you know what these were. But whenever possible, and more often than not, I wrote in longhand. I used pencils for almost ten years, then switched to fountain pens and never looked back. Now I'm sixty-nine, and I can just take it easy when writing, so I'm filling up notebooks of every type. Most of what I'm writing now are short stories and humor, but all those years as a writer I had two novels I wanted to write but didn't. These were back burner novels, and I was always too busy to move either one to the front burner. Now I'm not busy so I also started writing one of them.

How big is the last Moleskine? A4?

I'm surprised you like Moleskine notebooks. Their paper is some of the worst I've ever seen for fountain pen use.