Love the feel of this paper
The pages feel wonderful to the touch and are nice to write on depending on your instrument. I like using fountain pens and you can use fountain pens on this as long as you use medium or larger nibs. Fine nibs will gather fibers as expected. There was much less feathering than I expected. The manufacturer recommends gel pens and I would agree. Pencil and fine liner felt tip also work well. I found ghosting with all instruments except pencil which I was a little surprised about given the thick feel of the pages.  The only bleed-through I experienced was with a fine Sharpie which makes me wonder about brush pens or watercolor which I did not test. The manufacturer recommends testing which seems prudent but is after purchase.  As has been noted elsewhere, this is not cheap.<br /><br />The notebook lays flat. The overall notebook is surprisingly light so it would make a good notebook to carry with you if not for the closure 'mechanism". The notebook can be secured with the attached, impossibly long, string, but it lacks anything to easily attach the string to complete the closure. I would think something simple like you used to see (dating myself) on interoffice envelopes. I cut mine off.
Rating: 4 stars