Love the Rhodia notebooks - one of those that prefer the glossy, glasslike texture of the paper when using a fountain pen. Will have to try the softcovers after watching your review.
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Hard to find the perfect notebook and paper. I prefer white paper, but much prefer a soft cover. I currently use spiral bound Rhodia lined white paper notebooks. will get one of these to try. Thanks for the video.
@@BlakesBroadcast I must admit, I haven’t bought a Rhodia for a couple of months. Interesting news about a possible paper inconsistency. I’ll watch out for that. Thanks for the heads up.
I think the Rhodia hardcover has 80 gsm pages while the one you're reviewing has 90 gsm, hence the difference in bleed and ghosting. I could be wrong though.
You are right that Rhodia does have 90 and 80gsm paper weights but in the Rhodiarama hard and soft cover notebooks they use the 90gsm weight. The Webnotebooks are also 90gsm. I had better luck with Webnotebook paper. I am not sure if it is batch variation or what but this Rhodiarama I reviewed had disappointing performance.
For everyday use it's pretty good, no bleed or feathering even with a wet inks like KWZ. The only thing I find kinda annoying is that this paper has a tendency to make the line way thinner than it should be, for exemple, my TWSBI Eco with medium nib feels like a fine. If you are using dry pen, you may run into an unpleasant surprise.
@@BlakesBroadcast I mostly use Rhodia notebooks No. 18 A4 (the white one) and the wirebound No. 16's and they seem to work a little bit better with my pens than Rhodiarama. I have no idea why it is like that, but I've gotten used to it. Wet pen with wet ink solves the problem anyway.
Rhodia is alright. But most of my pens (majority of which have medium, broad and italic nibs) seem to write drier, and the line width of the writing on the page always appears noticeably thinner than on all the other papers, both premium and ordinary that I regularly use. I really don’t like that about Rhodia, in general.
