Leuchtturm1921 A4 Plus Master Slim Squared Notebook - Navy

I think these are the best notebooks on the market. The best from the point of view of quality and features.The cover is strong, the rubber band as well and the paper is fine, but strong. In terms of feature, I do appreciate the two 'markers' (fabric ribbons), the ToC and page numbers and the stickers that I use to label the many books once I 'archive' them.I do have one dislike and one caveat. Dislike: for me, a loop for a pen is missing and to add insult to injury, you can buy one for £2.50 !!! crazy!Caveat: the variety of these books is mind boggling and the way the Amazon site works, it is very easy to end up with the wrong book depending on availability of your desired combination of plain/ruled/..., colour and possibly size. In my case: I selected 'ruled' paper and went through the different colours to check prices and how the colour looks like on a larger pic. As soon as I hit a colour that is not available with ruled paper, the type of paper switches to what is available, eg plain. Suddenly, I am only looking at plain paper books... This means that you keep toggling all criteria and are also looking at the price (which can differ between colours).

This is the third LT A4 I've purchased and used, I use it for my university notes and the paper quality is vastly better than the A5 notebooks, that is to say there is little to no ghosting, the weightier paper makes it suitable for heavier duty work than its A5 counterpart, (which I find unusable even for ballpoint pen or pencil use nevermind felt tip or watercolour use) the size is ideal and the paper colour is easy on the eyes and the dots are the perfect weight, spacing and size for what I use it for. These notebooks are well worth the money if you take pride in your work and appreciate having organised and easily legible work, the page numbers are endlessly useful but there are not enough spaces in the index to write every single page number, which is perhaps the only fault I can find with the books, hence the 4 stars.I use one book per semester, I study law which involves a lot of writing (with 3 modules per semester) and they fill the 123 pages perfectly. This makes for very easy referencing back on old work, particularly as the pages are indexed for ease of finding a particular set of notes.

I found the options confusing on the Amazon entry, but ended up with what I wanted. Dots at 0.5cm which gives the option of small writing when that is being done, or larger writing if you want to make use of a full 1cm spacing. The dots are strong and close enough to guide writing and to act as a kind of line, but faint enough not be be noticeable when reading what has been written. Easy to mix graphs, text and images on the page. Lovely to have a physical book for some things, instead of a Word file buried on a computer somewhere. Physical things do have advantages sometimes.

Those Leuchtturm notebooks are great. They come in a whole range of beautiful colours, formats, line patterns ; the cover texture feels nice, the paper is of good quality with a nice slightly yellowish/cream "oldschool" colour, the pages can be opened flat with relative ease. The notebooks also come with additional features such as an index page you can fill, numbered pages with small margin on one side, place to write the date on every page, stickers for labelling the book and a pocket on the last page to store any kind of additional documents. You can buy a small elastic loop to stick on the notebook to hold a pen. All those additional features are relatively discrete however if you like your pages to be clear of anything except your writing this might not suit you. Other than that, it's always a pleasure to store and get those notebooks from the shelf and write something in them, they might cost more than the average (to be confirmed) but I do not regret my money at all.

I am a great fan of Leuchtturms and have purchased many A5 notebooks and been very pleased. I wanted an A4, it arrived but there is a large blank margin down the side of each page - usually lines run to the edge of the paper and indeed the photos in the product description show this. This loses a lot of writing area. So I sadly returned it to Amazon. I suspect the same photo of lined pages has been applied to all the Leuchtturm products, whoever set up the products assumed they are all the same when they're not.

I have tried a lot of cheaper notebooks in my time, but I just adore the Leuchtturm. The high quality paper means your pen or pencil glides comfortably, so notes are clear and handwriting stays beautiful. Mine has been dragged around and still looks as good as the day it arrived, including the two ribbon bookmarks and the back pocket. It feels as though I use it all the time, but there are still lots of pages left, as you can use both sides without worrying about ink bleeding through.Why did I ever use anything else?!

I love the idea of Moleskine's but the paper was never really usable for me. These sketchbooks have a similar look but are of far superior quality in my opinion. The paper isn't as heavy as a Moleskine but it's still almost totally bleed proof. The A4+ size is really great because you can stash A4 sheets in there without them over hanging and getting tattered. I hope to keep using these for a long time to come.

I use the bullet journal technique for business (nothing fancy/arty) and wanted a high quality notebook that would last me a while. Things I like about the Leuchtturm:- The pages are large so there's plenty of space to fit everything in without it getting cluttered.- The paper quality is nice with very little ghosting (I write with a Faber Castell Pitt Artist 0.3 Black Pen),- Page lines/markings are well spaced & feint enough not to be distracting.It seems sturdy overall but I'm not sure if it will last me a whole year before it gets worn & needs replacing. We'll see!