Review on Colorful Notebook For Women - Unruled Personal Diary Journal With Hardcover, Watercolor Design, 192 Pages, 2 Bookmarks, Unlined Writing Notepad Gift by Scott Holland

This beautiful collection of images (all unique, no repeats) serve as a wonderful backdrop for your creations and creativity, whether that takes the form of writing, drawing or doodles. IMHO, some of these illustrated pages have more of an image than others, so if your sole purpose is to only use this as a place for your drawings or illustrations, this might not be the best vehicle for your needs. However if you do a variety of things or you only record words, then this will be ideal for you. The subtle backgrounds are just a pleasant little extra "oomph," some eye-candy, for your creation. I have not found it yo lie flat at the outset (onset?) -- I have to hold it down, hold the pages spread with a wee bit of pressure -- I'm confident this will improve as I continue to use it. Although the description listed somewhere -- (was it on the website? was it on the protective paper wrapper on the journal? I forget.) -- stated something to the effect that the "Chinese" characters that previously appeared on some of the pages have all been removed in this edition. Well, yes, i found this to be accurate: there are not any characters appearing on any of the pages. But in a cursory examination of the book, if I had to hazard a guess as to the country of origin, I would say it's a Japanese product, not Chinese. Certainly I am far from being an expert in Asian cultures, jeeze louise! Perhaps this is a moot point, as there is no writing within the book's illustrations, so who cares what the original language was? I am so weird, yes, I know. But I noticed it the discrepancy and was puzzled by it. The other peculiarity I picked up on was the journal's cover -- it indicated this volume was the (forget exact season) Summer issue. Ohhh? Does this then mean there are three other seasons available, perhaps up for sale? Well, Mr. ebay, where are they? I'd like to examine them, and possibly purchase them! I would think other customers would feel similarly. So that's my two cents, for what its worth. :-)