Review on 📔 Itoya ProFolio Oasis Notebook - Large B5, Brick Red (Enhanced SEO) by Amber Perez

I'm a big fan of good notebooks and there are plenty of them. This laptop is one of my favorites. This laptop has a number of advantages: 1) Convenient location with a small grid. It has a linear appearance as well as a small grid (about 5mm with dots separating it). Makes charting much easier. 2) The book is very handy for a fountain pen. It rivals campus notebooks in its ability to handle ink (which is better than Rhodia in my opinion). This is a heavier paper (compared to Tomoe River Paper) but not much thicker than printer paper. 2a) Ghosting is very limited, even when using a very wet pen (e.g. Visconti Homo Sapiens). 2b) No bleeding. 3) It lies flat. The pages are very interesting. This is comparable to what you would get in higher quality magazines. It appears that the glue is still used (which is to be expected), but it doesn't seem to rely solely on glue to hold it together. This is in contrast to the 100-page campus notebooks, which are not stapled and only use glue. 4) B5 is a great paper size. A4/Letter is the standard in the US and to be honest I absolutely hate that size. It takes up a lot of desk space, makes it difficult to use a laptop when the laptop is in front of you, and so on. The A5 format is much better, but to be honest I find it too small for my work and study books. I think this format is great for dot journaling, planning, regular journaling, etc. Cons: I usually like to add at least one negative review of products I review, but it's hard to find fault with this notebook. The only thing I can remotely think of is to be careful with the binding. The campus has this issue and I suspect that despite the seams this will have some issues as well. It depends on the first 1/4 of the book and the last 1/4 of the book. Although it "lays flat," it really lends itself best to these markings. At the edges, you put *a lot* of pressure on those pages when you write on the back of the page. If you only write on one side of the sheet, then that's not a problem. But if you're writing on both, then I recommend gluing a small book (I use an old Campus 100 that I recently completed) to hold the pages together. In the long run, this protects your bond when it matters. While the book will most likely still be fully functional, in my experience writing for this type of magazine, things just look bad. It's bad enough that I've changed my behavior to fix this. Just a warning about that. I really recommend this laptop to everyone, especially in the STEM field. The hybrid dot/grid format is a very good format. 80 pages (160 on both sides) is a good amount. Not too much, not too little. If you're a liberal arts student I still think it's a good magazine, but I'd rather recommend the university version to these people (especially their B5 100-series laptops) as it's cheaper in bulk. If you write less and don't do it as much, consider one of the 30-page campus notebooks (usually for everyone). They are much easier to transport. However, it is a fantastic magazine and I use it often. Although this is far from my only magazine. I still use the campus for various purposes, as do a number of A5 Tomoe River magazines. It has its place in my ecosystem.