Cherchant un cahier.
Chère Lazyweb: It’s time to stop keeping research notes on scratch paper (not to be confused with scrap paper) and in my tiny daily Moleskine journal. I’m looking for composition-book suggestions.
What I envision is a large-format (A4/letter/8×10, etc.) notebook with acid-free paper (it must stand up to both age and water-based inks with a minimum of bleed). It should either be inexpensive or have a nontrivial page count (so I won’t have to be constantly purchasing more). It is preferable, but not absolutely necessary, that it have page numbers (I can add these if I have to) and quadrille (I can suffer along with narrowly lined pages if I must). Deal-breakers: wire spirals.
Does such a beast exist? The Moleskine “cahier” line meets some of these criteria (quality paper, quadrille), but fails others (too expensive and too few pages). Clairefontaine makes some high-quality notebooks, as I recall, but they’re also quite pricey.
(Hopefully I have some writing- and pen-geeks in the house.)