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Laefica
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Nov 16, 2015
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What is the purpose of webnotebooks? What makes them better than standard ones?
Nov 16, 2015
timo
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Nov 16, 2015
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LaeficaBasically: hard cover, elastic closure, inner pocket, ribbon bookmark, and the pages are sewn together and "bound in signatures" so they lay (closer to) flat and won't fall out nearly as easily as a glue- or staple-pad (none of the images on massdrop show it very well; there's one here: http://www.shopwritersbloc.com/rhodia-webnotebook--medium.html). The closure, inner pocket, and hard cover are, imho, quite nice for traveling. The notebook also looks quite nice, if that matters.
In other words, it's Rhodia's knock-off of the Moleskine, except that, being Rhodia, it's better in every way, from paper to manufacturing quality; especially paper. Moleskines have notoriously variable paper quality for such a "premium" brand, to the point of sometimes being unusable with fountain pens.
$20 is really not a bad price for this notebook (you can find slightly better prices, but not reliably for the colors you may want). You do get what you pay for. On the other hand, if you're happy with a "standard" notebook, you may as well just stick with that. I'm a pen-and-paper fetishist, and $20 even makes me cringe a bit. However, if you like Rhodia paper and want a stitched notebook, this is by far the easiest way to do it.
Nov 16, 2015
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