Review on 📔 Rhodia Webnotebook Orange 5 1/2 X 8 1/4: The Ultimate Writing Companion by Jessica Lewis

I've been using these Rhodia orange A5 hardcover notebooks for writing in my fountain pen collection for a while. I loved every one of them. Everything else was fine and my pens wrote smoothly and evenly with no dragging. The paper in this magazine looks the same as the paper in previous Rhodia A5s, but it is NOT. At first I thought something suddenly happened to my pens. So I've tried them on blank space in previous Rhodias and they write great in them, as well as in a Rhodia wired notebook and on Clairefontaine French lined paper. It's not about my pens or the brand of ink I've been using all along. It is this paper that hardly absorbs ink and leaves pens dragging. I can't send it back because I've already written in it. Of course. $19.95 total down crap. The only good thing I can say about it is that the cover is beautiful, it has a pocket on the back, elastic closure and a ribbon marker. It's a pity that the paper is not suitable for any of my 30 fountain pens. I'm so disappointed because I now feel like I can't trust these Rhodia A5 hardcover magazines since I'm a social security recipient and can't spend another $19.95 on another potentially useless pig in a poke.