PapercodeLined Journal Notebooks (2 Pack) - Luxury Journals for Writing w/ 130 Pages, Soft Cover - Executive Notebooks for Work, Travel, College - Gray

Love these notebooks. The color and the paper quality are great- love the perforations. I recommend :)

Paper is beautiful and thick. Papermate flair pens (felt tip) do not bleed through and write very smoothly due to smooth surface. Cover is durable, hasn't peeled/curled or even shown wear - I carry this everywhere at work and tote it around in a full backpack when its not in use. M previous go-to was Moleskine, but those get beat up s o quickly and the paper is too thin for flair felt tip pens.I did have to glue the ribbon bookmark back into the spine (there are 2 which is awesome for keeping my current place as well as another reference page, way more useful than I ever reallized. didn't know how much I needed the two bookmark ribbons until I had them, and i'm not going back!) since i was a little rough with it and it was only tacked in with some double stick tape. I just squeezed some e90 glue into the spine and smushed, but had to glue again with superglue to really fix it. I preemptively superglued the ribbon into the spine on the second book.The perforations are cleanly cut and very easy to tear along without ripping the page, but they only tear out if you want them to. No accidental perforation-tearing or separation even with rough handling, even when it fell and I had to grab it midair by the single page. When you do tear out a page, everything comes out cleanly and fairly easily - just don't yank, guide it out with even force. The fact that you get 2 is awesome - I've stopped shopping around for an ideal meeting/tasks work notebook. Minimal design, exceptional performance, incredibly functional. These are already in my cart again since I'm on the second one.

Is was what I expected and a bit more.

I have bought several of these in the past few years. They have a nice stretchy strap to hold it closed, plus a bookmark in the middle to mark a page. Each page is perforated, which is great. There's also a roomy expandable pocket in the back that can hold several pages.

I don’t know why books like this with perforated pages are so hard to find. I take a lot of notes for work and keep my to-dos written down for work but once I’m done I want to often tear the pages out and move to clean work pages and not have to flip all the way through to find the next clean page. These work perfect for that purpose.

I have purchased likely 50 of these journals over the span of 6 years, and they have been a great way to take notes for work meetings. The ribbon bookmark didn't stay attached but everything else worked pretty well. I used them only for 6-8 weeks before filling them up and moving onto a new one so I didn't run into other durability issues that might come up over a long span of use.But this most recent batch did have, as other reviewers have noted, a very strong smell, like gasoline or petroleum. I had thought it'd go away but it really hasn't sufficiently for me to buy these again. I'm looking for another option. Sadly, there aren't that many notebooks that have this many pages and are soft cover, so it's taking some searching to find a replacement! If the smell issues are resolved and noted in later reviews, then I'd love to come back to purchase these again. They were very handy for my purposes.

This thing is great. One small defect. The strap broke the second I touched it. The strap on notebooks like this is important to me as I use them every time I close the book. Still five stars because it is a one off as far as my experience goes. If it happens on the second one I’ll update my review to a lower rating.

Well made save yourself a few bucks and buy it in Gray. A similar product sells in a big office supply stores for double the price