CIAK Classic Notebook B6 [Dots, Plain, Lined]

I have been using these notebooks for over 20 years. Just the right size, excellent quality and the horizontal band is great for holding a pen and securing loose papers.

I have been using these notebooks as diaries for many years and am very pleased with the quality.

Lovely colour, well-made. First time I've seen a B6 notebook and I'm hooked. Would order again from this company.

I was skeptical at first because the pages seemed slightly thinner than expected, but I was wrong. I used a montblanc fountain pen (medium) and there’s no feathering or bleeding whatsoever. The size is perfect for travel, not too small, not too big. The pages are cream colored which I love. I’d definitely buy it again.

Not Fountain Pen Friendly: I use the plain paper version as a sketchbook. The size, number of pages and rigidity are perfectly acceptable. However, with my preferred media of fountain pen and Waterman's intense black ink, it's not the best. This paper isn't fountain pen friendly. On the plus side, I would recommend this as a really good, handheld sketchbook for dry media like pencil, chalk or ballpoint. For fountain pen sketchers, you'll have to look out for ghosting, bleed-through, absorption and spread of a mark... so a line of 0.3mm on good fountain pen paper is 0.5 on CIAK. An extra fine line also ghosts on CIAK, which is unacceptable on paper that's described as fountain pen friendly, extra fine lines deliver very little ink. The surface itself seems a touch rough and catchy with thinner nib tipping, too. Flex nibs respond the worst. Nevertheless, if you go through tons of paper this might be a viable option when it's on offer or sale price. For fountain pen users, the best hand held, value for money, pen and ink sketchbooks are the Moleskin art books. Unfortunately, the price for these is escalating massively. Other brands that offer equally good fountain paper are extortionately expensive. The CIAK sketchbook is third tier for pen and ink work but it's adequate if it's on sale price total and you go through lots of paper (I think my purchase was about 36% cheaper with the sale price and a store welcome purchase discount. I bought 4 in total).

Love the quality of Ciak notebooks. These are a great size.

I used to buy these notebooks when they were stocked at Paperchase in the UK. They were my absolute favourite journal and I was gutted when I couldn't get them there anymore. I was SO chuffed to find them again here. The paper weight is perfect for a proper ink pen, it doesn't bleed through. The size and thickness of the B6 journal is absolutely ideal - feels significant in your hands but not cumbersome to carry around. My only slight disappointment is that there are now index and calendar pages at the start of the journals which take up a chunk of pages, and also I think the line thickness has changed so they're slightly harder to see. Apart from these minor flaws, they remain my favourite book for journalling and I'm so glad I can use them again. Also lovely selection of colours. So pleased!!

Really nice notebook, the dots are not too big and are a nice spacing (5mm), I really like the size too, it's absolutely my favourite size and chunkiness of notebook. A couple of things I found a bit confusing in the description on the website: the pages don't have a separate dot line at the top for a title but do have a border without dots around the edge; and the 112 page count in the description is the number of sheets, so there are twice that many pages.