Notebooks

I got my first fountain pen last week because of the previous posts here. My colleague has recommended moleskin notebooks, but I haven’t purchased anything, yet.

Don't. Do not use a Moleskine with a fountain pen. If I recall correctly we have briefly discussed the question in a discussion in our Journaling community, and I would not be surprised it was also discussed in the fountain pen community too, you can also do a quick online search to find a lot of user feedback regarding using their fountain pens with Moleskine. They don't play nice together, to put it politely. Moleskine are great for ballpoint pens, like really. Not so much with fountain pens as their paper is kinda cheap and the teh fountain pen ink will bleed through it. Fountain pens leave a lot more ink and use a different type of ink than ballpoint or gel, using good paper paper is real important part of the process.

If you want something like Moleskine that will also be good with fountain pens, try Leuchtturm 1917. They should also be similarly priced.

If you want something unique but not cheap: try to get your hands on some notebook using Tomoe River paper (this thing is a blessing for fountain pen lovers: one of teh thinnest paper ever while still working well with a lot of fountain pens). A lot cheaper while still being nice with most fountain pens (not Tomoe-nice, but nice nonetheless), I can suggest Clairefontaine/Rhodia. Here in France, it's cheap enough for kids to be able to use it in school and, at least back in my days, in school we had to learn handwriting using a fountain pen ;)