Consumption Item 15: Quo Vadis Habana Notebook

Cover Material: Some kind of faux leather

Paper: Clairefontaine - white, 90 grams

Lined?: Yes. Fine, precise, and grey

Binding: Five sewn sections - 80 sheets, total

Price: Swisher Pens has them for $20

Primary Strength: Excellent Clairefontaine paper

Pimary Weakness: I want more pages

Verdict: Pretty great, actually.

Fig. 1: Brand spankin' new. Image used with kind permission from Dowdyism at the Pen Addict. Dude is awesome. His reviews were an inspiration for me to start this madness. If you like disposable pens and economical reviews, you should check out his site on the regular.

I'm not going to transcribe the review that is handwritten below. My penmanship ain't any great shakes, but it's not that bad, and you'll get a better feel for the notebook that way. Click to expand images, naturally.

Fig. 2: First page of the review proper, wherein I misspell Clairefontaine. I'm a dummy. Click to embiggen.

Fig. 3: Pages 2 and 3 of the review. Nitty gritty stuff, here.

Fig. 4: The penultimate and ultimate pages of the review, coming to a rousing climax of colors other than black. Note: the bleedthrough on the red ink was not as bad as it appeared at first. The green/black mix was still pretty bad, though.

Some further notes:

• I really like the true white pages, and I'll be using this notebook for several handwritten reviews coming up.
• The fine grey lines are totally sweet. If they made a graph paper version of this, it'd be even better.
• The Quo Vadis homepage says that the book is 96 pages, in contradistinction to the information I found elsewhere (for example, on the notebook's sash). I invite Exaclair personell to clarify this in the comments. No, I'm not going to count them myself!
• The more I think of it, the more $20 seems like really a lot for even a notebook of this admittedly very high quality.
• Looking for a cheaper source than Swisher Pens from the "Where to Buy" link from Quo Vadis' page linked above, I can't actually find any QV notebooks, only planners. Again, I invite Exaclair to clarify in the comments. I just hope I didn't sit on this one too long and now it's discontinued.