Apica CD

Apica CD is the way to go for inexpensive, high quality notebooks. I use their A5 offering regularly. The paper quality is ridiculous and they are under $5/each. You'll lose the hardcover but get something so vastly superior to Moleskine it's crazy.

Great fountain-pen-friendly notebook, for those who like a smoother, silkier paper. Only deducted one star because I think the B5 version of this notebook is the better choice--it's significantly larger for a small price increase, making it a much better deal per square inch of writing surface. If y...

Apica CD notebooks on Jet Pens carried me through most of my engineering design courses. [Specifically They only have 52 pages, but for most of my classes that was more than enough.

I have been using this notebook for several months now with many different fountain pens. The paper is smooth with no bleed through or feathering. However, it doesn’t show much sheen with those inks that include it. The pages fold and hold easily regardless of where you fold, and the notebook closes...

It also has a bit of a bleed-through problem for some of my pens. * [Apica is generally the right size, but the cover is not really the style I like (a bit too old-timey and busy).

I absolutely hate when ink bleeds through, or I can see the ghosting of text on a previous page. This is why I loathe Moleskine notebooks so much. The paper in this notebook is fantastic and handles gel pen, fountain ink and anything else I throw at it without bleeding through. I just wish this had ...

For class notes or other non work notes, Apica CD Notebooks, specifically the grid ones. They handle fountain pen ink well enough and they're cheap af.

The paper is very smooth and of high quality, but I'm not sure that it is good enough to justify the price. The binding is composed of multiple small signatures sewn together and the notebook easily stays flat when opened. I like the 7mm ruling. 6 mm is too small for me and 7.5 would be perfect. The...

Apica CD-15 note books are hands down the best for notes no matter how broad the nib or ink brand.

Man, this is one of the worst books I've tried, which is a complete 180 from the rest of Apica's books, which their CD11's are my favorirte notebooks for fountain pens (along with Black and Red). Pricy for a notebook thats almost as bad as Meade's cheap garbage