I'm A Sad, Pathetic Stationery Junkie.

[Misfit]

@Runnin_Utethose are nice. 

[Penguincollector]

  I met my friend Grace (Wildly Imaginable on YouTube, for those who enjoy fountain pen content) at Daiso, and I bought a ton of notebooks from Somnium, Kokuyo, Daiso’s house brand, and Continue in A5, B5, and B6, a postcard holder, stickers, and some decorated zip top bags. 

[Runnin_Ute]

  On 3/12/2025 at 6:55 AM, Misfit said:

@Runnin_Utethose are nice. 

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They really are. Only used them once or twice so far. 

[Mechanical]

  On 3/20/2025 at 10:22 PM, Penguincollector said:

  I met my friend Grace (Wildly Imaginable on YouTube, for those who enjoy fountain pen content) at Daiso, and I bought a ton of notebooks from Somnium, Kokuyo, Daiso’s house brand, and Continue in A5, B5, and B6, a postcard holder, stickers, and some decorated zip top bags. 

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One ton?  You did well!  

 

I'm now planning my next Daiso visit. I'll be looking to see if I can figure out what a postcard holder is...  Meanwhile, what are all these things in my jetpens cart?

[Gloucesterman]

  On 3/21/2025 at 1:24 AM, Mechanical said:

I'm now planning my next Daiso visit. I'll be looking to see if I can figure out what a postcard holder is... 

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A nail is a postcard holder. So is a piece of tape!

[Penguincollector]

  The postcard holder I bought is like a photo album, but sized for postcards in a case. I actually bought it to use as a folder for small sized sheets of paper. It’s semi ok in that regard, I prefer the Midori folders but it was $1.75. 

[JCC123]

  On 1/23/2025 at 12:53 AM, Mechanical said:

 

These are soooo useful!  I've had a (not deluxe) guillotine cutter for decades and use it all the time.  I do find myself wanting one of those models with a  clamp that holds the paper while cutting -- and which apparently cut 400 pages at once!  The $200+ price tag has saved me.  So far.  I really have to stop rewatching the video of the vendor cutting through an inch-high stack of copy paper.

 

I just replaced a bottle of Iroshizuku Take-Sumi. That was all I had in mind.   But somehow this put me in the mood, and  I also ordered a couple of King Jim LASENO Ring Notebooks (along with refills). The King Jim paper is quite nice, it turns out.  But then also I felt the sudden need for a Shachihata  Ink Pad, a Tsumekake Index Punch, a couple of Kokuyo Research Lab Pens, some colored Stalogy sticky flag notes, a box of Kita-Boshi Red/Blue Editor's Pencils (really like these), a pack of Silvine little pocket notebooks, a replacement hardcover Kokuyo sketch book... and a Pilot Frixion frog stamp (green).  At this point, I'm choosing not to recall my recent visit to Kinokuniya.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Places like Kinkos, now Fedex Kinkos, have these industrial hydraulic/pneumatic cutters as a service. You can just take whatever you need to cut, a large stack of it, and have them cut it for you. I remember having it done a long time ago for $1-$2 per cut. If you're not always doing this it's way more economical as well as practical to just go to get it done there.

[JCC123]

I've been a long time user of Midori MD notebooks after migrating from Moleskine like a lot of folks. Midori's parent company has serval lines of high quality note "systems". One that I've been eyeing recently has been Plotter. It's just getting more awareness these days from the community. It's even higher end than the MD series. The biggest difference is that it uses rings. It's both a blessing and a curse because the rings give you the flexibility to move/remove/add pages. That's one of the biggest drawbacks I see with standard bound notebooks. The drawback with a rings system is of course having to deal with the ring always being in the way when you write.

 

In any case, I've always been a bit OCD about using different types of notebooks but would prefer to pick one or two systems so that everything is the same: same paper, same sizes, same look when storing it on shelves. You know, nice and neat. So I don't randomly buy notebooks.

 

So, what are people's thoughts on Plotter?

 

I'm also looking at another brand or system that Midori's parent also carries, Touch & Flow. That particular brand seems to be catered more to women, although men do use it as well. Their largest size is B6 instead of A5. What I don't like about this system is that their main notebooks don't open flat as easily.

[Mechanical]

  On 3/22/2025 at 2:51 PM, JCC123 said:

Places like Kinkos, now Fedex Kinkos, have these industrial hydraulic/pneumatic cutters as a service. You can just take whatever you need to cut, a large stack of it, and have them cut it for you. I remember having it done a long time ago for $1-$2 per cut. If you're not always doing this it's way more economical as well as practical to just go to get it done there.

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Thanks, @JCC123 I've got one of these nearby and I'll take a look. 

[Penguincollector]

    I met a pen friend for coffee and shopping at our local stationer’s.  I now have a grey A5 Kunisawa Find Ring grid notebook. 

[A Smug Dill]

 

This is just to test, when I get around to it, what works well enough for ink swatches with stamped images in white as points of interest. I'm not intending to put that ink in a fountain pen!

[Doug C]

We are getting a Daiso in town.  Are they worth visiting?

[Misfit]

I got this A7 size notebook in an order today. It’s a cute little notebook. 
 

 

[inkstainedruth]

Had to look up what the size for A7 paper is.  

That would be a nice little notebook for stuff like keeping track of what the different booths in an antiques mall had, or making shopping or "to do" lists, or keeping track of expenses -- because something that small would easily fit in a person's purse or pocket.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Shinyblue]

I've always been a big fan of Fabriano notebooks but the last few years they seem to have gone downhill - as soon as they started opening Fabriano shops in expensive shopping streets the writing was on the wall.

 

Instead I've stated using Rossi notebooks (made in Florence). They don't have much variation in the type of books but the quality of the paper is really good - it just never bleeds or feathers.

 

One big drawback is that the books are tightly glued which which can be a nuisance especially after the glue lets go although so far that has never happened.

 

Has anybody else used them? 

[Penguincollector]

  On 4/1/2025 at 3:19 PM, Doug C said:

We are getting a Daiso in town.  Are they worth visiting?

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  Yes! I have bought several different brands of notebooks/notepads from there.  I still haven’t tried all of them, but I can see which ones are good from the ones I’ve tried and report back.

 

[Doug C]

  On 4/11/2025 at 10:12 PM, Penguincollector said:

  Yes! I have bought several different brands of notebooks/notepads from there.  I still haven’t tried all of them, but I can see which ones are good from the ones I’ve tried and report back.

 

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Sounds great!

[Penguincollector]

@Doug C 

 

  So I haven’t gotten through the ridiculous amount of notebooks/notepads that I have bought from Daiso, but a few brands that I have found are good are: Somnium/Sunnote (same company), Daiso mathematics exercise book 6094, Daiso Retro Color, Daiso Premium Memo Pad, Daiso Grid Memo Pad #1697, and Continue B5 grid notebooks. 

[Doug C]

  On 4/13/2025 at 6:06 PM, Penguincollector said:

@Doug C 

 

  So I haven’t gotten through the ridiculous amount of notebooks/notepads that I have bought from Daiso, but a few brands that I have found are good are: Somnium/Sunnote (same company), Daiso mathematics exercise book 6094, Daiso Retro Color, Daiso Premium Memo Pad, Daiso Grid Memo Pad #1697, and Continue B5 grid notebooks. 

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Thanks for the update!

[Misfit]

I, um, kind of bought a total of 12 pocket notebooks. Two three-packs of Nomad notebooks, and two three-packs of Field Notes Birds and Trees of North America. I think I likely have all the notebooks I’ll likely need. I need to actually use all these notebooks I buy. 
 

Oh cripes, that doesn’t include the Traveler’s Notebook orders. That’s three more notebooks, one including the red cover I talked about myself into.