RHODIA 18503C - Spiral Notebook (Full Bound) Orange - A4 - Dotted Dot - 80 Detachable Sheets - 80G Clairefontaine Paper - Soft and Resistant Coated Card Cover - Classic

The handiest size pad, with its spiral top and grid layout. A no brainier.

an excellent pad for portable note taking - convenient for carrying around, great dot grid for dense writing

Very nice quality paper

I always have one of these on my desk for jotting notes - the paper isn't as good as TomoeRiver but it is very safe for fountain pens and very reasonably priced. I also liek that it is dotted, not ruled or blank, and the spiral binding allows it to lay flat.

i use this to take notes and its useful for the price.

Just to be clear (as Amazon have the title for this Rhodia pad wrong) this Rhodia pad is a dot pad, not lined pad. I double checked before I ordered to make sure it was a dot pad even though the title/description says lined.The Black Dot Grid is 165039 and the Black Lined is 165019.Still love the dot pads from Rhodia, great for fountain pen use. Have a mix of this and the regular Rhodia Dot Pad 16559 and really do love these pads for writing with fountain pens. No feather or bleeding, slightly glossy/smooth finish, bright white with light grey dots.

The pad arrived damaged - the cardboard and back cover are bent and dirty. The quality of the pad itself is great, but looks like it was completely mishandled at Amazon warehouse and whoever packed it didn’t even bother checking if the product fits the appropriate quality standard. I also had some delivery problems (which were resolved by the logistics team), however the damaged product is still completely disappointing..

The cardboard on this is really stiff, might as well be a hardback like the oxford red and black notebooks. A5 squared in the style has been difficult to find. Good style of notebook for learning math online.

Note: My 5 star review does NOT take into the account the price of this notebook. High quality notebooks are ridiculously expensive and each person has to decide if they are willing to shell out that much money for writing paper. This review is based on quality and features, not price. To me, a notebook like this should cost maybe $8. Perhaps I am just getting old since everything seems too expensive any more.I am on a quest for the PERFECT notebook to use with my fountain pens for journaling and writing. I have yet to find the perfect notebook, but some manufacturers come close. This A4 top-bound lined notebook from Rhodia is one of them.Prior to trying this my favorite paper, by a wide margin, was Mnemosyne. Specifically, the 199 A4 lined notebook. Now that I have tried this, I may still lean a little toward Mnemosyne, but not by much. There are things about this paper I like more than the Mnemosyne, and some I like less. I will review this notebook below, by way of comparing it to the Mnemosyne 199, which is a notebook that I'm sure many people will also consider if considering this one.To begin, the Rhodia paper quality is excellent. One of the most important characteristics of a nice paper is how it makes your pen feel when you write on it. This is very smooth. Although smooth, it is not as silky smooth as the Mnemosyne - this paper feels a little bit "draggier". NOT scratchy, at all, which is important to note. This paper is WAY nicer than common copy paper, for instance. The Mnemosyne paper just has a tad less friction which gives more of an "Ohhh" factor when you write on it. However, I find that my ink seems to be drying quicker on this paper versus the Mnemosyne. I think the coating on the Rhodia may be a tad bit more porous, resulting in the slightly increased friction and quicker drying time. Drying time is important if you write quickly, and don't want everything to smear when you flip the page over. Sometimes I find myself having to wait 10 or 15 seconds (or blowing) before turning the page on my Mnemosyne. The wait isn't as long with the Rhodia. For frantically taking notes in class, this quicker drying paper would be an advantage.The next quality of this paper, and it REALLY shines here - is its resistance to bleed-through and ghosting. Even with my crappiest, wettest inks the bleed through and ghosting is almost non-existent. This is also a place where the Mnemosyne shines, but I think the Rhodia is a tad ahead of the Mnemosyne in this department. Either way, both are a great choice. Given how white the Rhodia paper is, I find it particularly impressive how it resists bleed-through and ghosting.About whiteness, the Rhodia paper is a nice, bright white. Great if you like bright paper. The Mnemosyne, by comparison is (intentionally) off white. I can't say that I have a preference. The Mnemosyne is really nice and theoretically less fatiguing on the eyes (maybe), but when put side to side the Mnemosyne looks dingy by comparison.The ruling lines on the Rhodia are a light purple-blue. They aren't obnoxious by any means, but I like my ruling lines a bit more understated like what the Mnemosyne does with very light gray lines made of really small dots. The Rhodia rulings are 8mm, where the Mnemosyne rulings are 7mm. The Mnemosyne does sometimes feel a bit cramped to me, the 8mm Rhodia lines are a very comfortable spacing.When it comes to writing comfort, the top binding of the Rhodia has some advantages over the side bound Mnemosyne. The rulings of the Rhodia go truly edge to edge and don't have to compete with a spiral binding on either side. I find writing without a side binding to be much more comfortable than with one. And I also appreciate the lines going edge to edge, because at the price of these notebooks I like getting the maximum number of words per page. Also, the Rhodia wastes no space on a top title section or bottom margin - it is all lines, all the time. Maximum utility.While having as many lines as possible, and running the lines edge to edge is great for economy, it does take a hit on style. When flipping through completed pages of the Rhodia it is all writing, edge to edge and top to bottom. Aesthetically it is jarring. By contrast, the Mnemosyne, and other types of notebooks that include margins, have a more "finished" look - for the same reason that novels have margins. If your main use for this paper is utility, you get your money worth with the Rhodia format. If you want to use it as a permanent journal, or diary, a side bound notebook with modest margins may be a better bet. (The Mnemosyne has, I believe, too large of a top margin on every page, front and back for Date and Title). Also, the top biding does NOT lend itself to ease of re-reading text. Unlike a side binding, which reads like a book and can remain in the same place on your desk or table to turn pages, the top binding requires you to flip the pad over for every new page (assuming you write on both sides - at this price I hope you do!).The last feature to discuss with this notebook is the cover. Compared to the Mnemosyne, the Rhodia cover is underwhelming. It looks better in pictures than in person. The cover is made of a laminated cardboard that, despite being individually wrapped in a plastic sleeve, managed to look a bit shelf-worn right out of the package. As well, the front is shiny, picking up scratches and scuffs very easily. It is a decent cover, but is leagues away from the Mnemosyne covers that are plastic and super durable. The Mnemosyne seems archival quality, the Rhodia not. Both notebooks include a think cardboard back that adds nice rigidity to them.In sum, this is great paper and a very nice notebook. I would say while the top spiral binding definitely has some advantages in writing comfort and ability to write edge to edge, it results in a less appealing finished writing product. Also, I didn't mention before, but the top binding means that there is less linear area of paper being held by the binding so the paper may be less secure under heavy use (in and out of backpack, etc.) This paper is bright white, smooth, and crazy good at resisting ghosting and bleed-through. It is the first notebook I have found that can compete with my beloved Mnemosyne. Also, I counted the total line-inches of this notebook versus the Mnemosyne, and based on current prices this notebook is a 4.5% better value for writing space.To conclude my comparison between this Rhodia A4 and the Mnemosyne 199, there is only one of these two notebooks that I would intentionally go up to an acquaintance with and say "Look at this notebook! Feel it, feel the pages! Here - write on it with my pen!" That is the Mnemosyne. But, to be fair, if they asked about the price for such a skinny notebook, I would have to be prepared to sheepishly tell them that I paid $15 for 70 sheets of paper. At least the Rhodia is a LITTLE less expensive, and has a LITTLE more writing room and edge comfort. My search for perfection continues...

Esse caderno é muito bom para ser usado com canetas tinteiro. Os pontinhos ajudam bastante como guia, seja para escrita ou desenho 🙂. É um caderno pequeno, mas na minha opinião serve para fazer anotações em geral 🙂

The media could not be loaded.  Buena calidad y fue lo que esperaba, me gustó su diseño.

Cumple con las expectativas del producto descrito y me llego a tiempo, una esquina un poco doblada pero el cuaderno es justo el que solicite.

Simple, de qualité et efficace.Carnet pour la prise de notes en toutes circonstances. 🫶