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Oct. 1st, 2018 10:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kaixoNot that anyone is actually watching this DW, but that's fine. LMAO. I tend to spend all my time in Tumblr looking at the pretty.
What greeted me in the box. After shipping, and customs charges, it did cost a pretty penny. But only fractionally more than it would have cost if I bought it here in the UK. You don't have a choice of accessories (stickers, A6 page board, page markets, etc). In addition, you don't have much choice of covers (which is understandable), and you may or may not get the free gift of paper weight and pen. The covers weren't so great this year, so I just went with a basic red with blue lining. It will be bright enough so that I can find it in my bag (although I have a lot of red books).
The book is supposedly a standard A6 size, but I think that this is slightly bigger. It's about the size of one of those small bibles found in hotels.
From what I've gathered, the pen is a free gift that comes every year, but the other free gifts do vary. Last year, it was dice with pictures of food. So everytime you throw the dice, you commit to eat whatever meal is thrown up on that day. This year we got a bear paperweight. It's a bit small, and not heavy enough to hold down paper, and more of a dust catcher than anything else.
The pen and a page a day.
As said, this is the free pen. In a way, it's prescriptive of the pen that they expect you to have for this book. It's a relatively thick barrel with a hanging clip, so it keeps the lapes together. The nibs are fine (to make Japanese characters easier to write), and it's tri-coloured: black, blue and red. The ink is relatively bright, more like a gel ink than roller ball. For the page a day, I'm not really someone to do that, but I can still do my bujo, and in any free space, I'll try and fill in with German words of the day or something.
The paper is the real selling point of this book. It's the famous Tomoe River paper. It's thin, but it's strong and resistant to ink bleedthrough and feathering (taken directly from the wiki).
That's about it, really. It is a diary bought for 2019. In retrospect, the hobonichi weeks might have been better, but what made me pause is the fact that I find B6 to be a bit big especially with the bags I walk around with. I do like A5 books for notes, but I thought that the A5 might be too big for me, especially since I'm going to be living out of a suitcase for a minute.
What greeted me in the box. After shipping, and customs charges, it did cost a pretty penny. But only fractionally more than it would have cost if I bought it here in the UK. You don't have a choice of accessories (stickers, A6 page board, page markets, etc). In addition, you don't have much choice of covers (which is understandable), and you may or may not get the free gift of paper weight and pen. The covers weren't so great this year, so I just went with a basic red with blue lining. It will be bright enough so that I can find it in my bag (although I have a lot of red books).
The book is supposedly a standard A6 size, but I think that this is slightly bigger. It's about the size of one of those small bibles found in hotels.
From what I've gathered, the pen is a free gift that comes every year, but the other free gifts do vary. Last year, it was dice with pictures of food. So everytime you throw the dice, you commit to eat whatever meal is thrown up on that day. This year we got a bear paperweight. It's a bit small, and not heavy enough to hold down paper, and more of a dust catcher than anything else.
The pen and a page a day.
As said, this is the free pen. In a way, it's prescriptive of the pen that they expect you to have for this book. It's a relatively thick barrel with a hanging clip, so it keeps the lapes together. The nibs are fine (to make Japanese characters easier to write), and it's tri-coloured: black, blue and red. The ink is relatively bright, more like a gel ink than roller ball. For the page a day, I'm not really someone to do that, but I can still do my bujo, and in any free space, I'll try and fill in with German words of the day or something.
The paper is the real selling point of this book. It's the famous Tomoe River paper. It's thin, but it's strong and resistant to ink bleedthrough and feathering (taken directly from the wiki).
That's about it, really. It is a diary bought for 2019. In retrospect, the hobonichi weeks might have been better, but what made me pause is the fact that I find B6 to be a bit big especially with the bags I walk around with. I do like A5 books for notes, but I thought that the A5 might be too big for me, especially since I'm going to be living out of a suitcase for a minute.
