Next year is shockingly close - have you picked out your 2020 Planner yet? Hopefully this week’s winner of the Rhodia 2020 WebPlanner Weekly Notebook is ready to to have their best planned year yet! The winner is:
Congrats Christopher! I’ve sent you an email to collect your shipping address.
(Susan M. Pigott is a fountain pen collector, pen and paperholic, photographer, and professor. You can find more from Susan on her blog Scribalishess.)
The Endless Recorder notebook is a creation by Endless Works, a company in India. The company is built on three pillars: simplicity, aesthetics, and service. Their logo--a long cigar-shaped line followed by three dots--represents content (the long line) that proceeds to infinity (the three dots).
The notebook comes in a handmade cotton pouch with a pull tie and a sewn-in pen loop. It’s a nice touch, but I doubt I’ll ever use the pouch or the pen loop with the notebook.
Included with the notebook are a sticker that says, “Ideas are Endless,” and a card with a QR code with which you can register your notebook. As far as I can tell, registering simply puts you on the company’s email list.
The notebook comes in four leatherette colors: black, blue, green, and red. Each color has a turquoise closure band.
The notebook corners are rounded and the binding is sewn.
Several details make the Endless Recorder special. It has a ribbon bookmark, an expandable pocket on the back cover, a two-page table of contents, numbered pages, and sixteen perforated pages at the end.
In addition, the paper is a higher density Tomoe River paper (68 gsm as opposed to the usual 52 gsm). This means that it is less prone to show through and feels more substantive. The notebook contains 187 numbered pages and is A5 size (8.3 inches by 5.5 inches).
I’ve used my Endless Recorder for several months as an everyday notebook. I’ve taken faculty meeting notes, written Pen Addict reviews, and tested inks in this notebook. There’s absolutely no bleeding and the paper is smooth and enjoyable to write on.
It stands up well to nearly everything I throw at it. Only a thick Sharpie penetrated the paper, but even that was minimal.
Show through is still an issue, although it’s not as noticeable with the 68 gsm paper. I’m not bothered by show through, but if you are, you’ll want to write on only one side of each page.
I’m quite impressed with the Endless Recorder notebook. I appreciate the extra touches, such as the Table of Contents and the page numbers. I prefer its white 68gsm Tomoe paper over cream, especially for ink swabbing. I love the perforated pages. I just wish all the pages were perforated, because I like having the option of removing pages from a notebook. I honestly have nothing negative to say about this well-crafted notebook. It’s going to give my go-to journaling notebook (the Seven Seas Writer) a run for its money.
The Endless Recorder costs $22.95, and you can chose lined, dot-grid, grid, or blank paper. Blank paper notebooks come with guide sheets. The dot grid and grid are spaced at 5mm with 7mm ruling. You can get your notebook personalized at additional cost.
(Endless Works provided this notebook to Pen Addict at no cost for review purposes.)
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I've reviewed Zebra Sarasa Push Clip pens a few times, so it's no secret that I love them. It's difficult to pick a favorite one (who can compete with a Sarasa that smells like cake???) but these Zebra Sarasa Vintage sets are by far my favorites in terms of color selection. I love the muted tones that still come across as a bold autumn color palette.
Set one includes the colors: dark blue, blue gray, green black, brown gray, and red black. Set two has: sepia black, dark gray, bordeaux purple, cassis black, camel yellow. Each set runs about $7.50, which is a great deal compared to the open stock price of $1.75. The pens are also refillable, though the refills cost almost as much as a new pen and I haven't been able to track down refills in the vintage colors.
The pens are built well, with solid plastic in the color of the ink, which is handy for easy identification in pen cases. They have nice clicky-buttons to extend the tip, though one of mine is a bit defective and doesn't retract completely. The grip section is cased in firm rubber, which makes for good traction, though it does collect dust. They also have the signature push clip with the brand labeled in a vintage gold color.
Both these sets have 0.5 mm tips on the refills, which makes a very nice fine line. The ink flows incredibly well with no signs of skipping. It looks wet, but dries quickly and shows no feathering or bleed-through. The ink is water-based pigment, and it is waterproof. The gel ink does run out quickly if you're writing a lot, as is the way with any gel pen.
The colors are perfect for adding a bit of excitement when you still need a professional looking document, or for color-coding class notes. They're fine enough to use in coloring books, too, particularly if you're coloring pictures of fall leaves or Victorian fashion plates. These are everyday pens for me, and remain on a perpetual reorder list.
(JetPens provided this product at no charge to The Pen Addict for review purposes.)
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