Yoobi Composition Notebook Mini Review (With Photos)

[Bookman]

Yoobi Composition notebooks have the kind of composition-notebook cover heft and feel I like: stiff, heavy-duty cardboard. They are sold at Target for $2.29. They might be available elsewhere, but I've only seen them at Target. They come in wide rule and college, and the different rules are distinguished at a glance by the covers: wide rule has a solid color as the background. The notebook also comes in pink.

 

 

 

 

Clearly designed for children, I'm not a big fan of the cover design even though I do like toucans. I'm a big fan of Fruit Loops. I like Fruit Loops more than this cover design. I do, however, like the idea that some of my money will be diverted to supply schools with more materials.

 

 

 

 

There are two qualities of paper to be found in these notebooks: excellent and composition-notebook-average. Average sucks. So run your hand or fingers over the paper. If it feels like typical cheap notebook paper, put the notebook back and grab another. The good stuff is super-smooth, as smooth an any composition-notebook paper I've found. And I've looked. Check the smoothness. It's worth the bother: all qualities of the Yoobi paper are as FP-friendly/unfriendly as its smoothness.

 

The super-smooth paper provides a predictably smooth writing experience. You can see through the paper to the writing on the next leaf. Nevertheless, not one of the pen-ink combinations I tried feathered or bled through, not even partially. Here are the skinnier nibs. The fatter ones are farther down the page.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Show-through is comparable to what we see in Norcom made-in-Brazil composition notebooks. If the photos seem to depict partial bleed-through, I can tell you I've double-checked the actual pages and any apparent bleed-through is an optical illusion. I repeat: not one pen-ink combination bled-through, not even partially.

 

 

 

 

I wondered how my italic nibs would do on this paper. Each one is rather wet and puts down quite a bit of ink. But the paper stood up to all the ink: no feathering and no bleed-through.

 

 

 

 

Edited April 9, 2017 by Bookman

[da vinci]

Nice review, thanks

[inkstainedruth]

Thanks for this. I had been wondering about the Yoobi notebooks and journals.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[thudthwacker]

I was in Target today and figured, what the heck? Sadly, while the paper felt quite smooth to me, it's not handling any of my inks at all well -- lots of bleed-through and a bit of feathering. Ah, well. Like the man says, you win some, you lose some. Looks like the design (and, thus, possibly the source for the paper) has changed -- my notebook has college-ruled paper in a solid (not patterned) cover, and the rest of the graphics (logo, text on the back) is less whimsical.

[amberleadavis]

Thank you.

[DrDebG]

Very nice review! Thank you.