Left Handed Spiral College Ruled Notebooksįinally a notebook I can write in with ease. She loves the notebooks since she does letter writing all the time. Joshua Bergren from Morro Bay, CA United States Here are some of our favorites from Epica, makers of what are widely regarded as the finest handcrafted leather journals and notebooks available anywhere.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful: If you are using a fountain pen, be sure to test your nib and ink on a sheet before you commit (or, look carefully within product reviews for ‘bleed through’ comments). And at the luxury end of the scale, you can find handmade paper that is something to experience. Fancier papers have a texture that makes writing a more pleasurable experience and some even have deckled or frayed edges that do not only look really cool, but they feel great to touch, providing pleasurable feedback through my fingers. If you plan to keep your notes and memoirs for years to come, be sure that the paper is of archival quality and acid-free. Typically, for ballpoint or rollerball pens, any smooth paper will work just fine. I think your instrument mostly will dictate the paper you choose to write on from either side. Paper Choices: This really gets personal! There are hundreds of paper qualities and styles out there. When selecting a wrap-style journal (also called Medieval or Olde-Worlde journals), I like it when they are available with the flap opening to the left so my wrist lays on the leather as I write. Just open the book about halfway and bend the pages back more than 180-degrees to ‘break’ the binding glue a bit. Soft cover journals have a flexible spine so that’s generally less of a worry, though the page binding can be so stiff that even within soft covers or with a refillable journal, the pages may need to be ‘broken-in’ once or twice to make the pages lay down. However, to really get those pages to lay-flat nicely, choose your hardcover carefully – a rounded spine will allow the pages more room inside to bend away from each other, so look for that feature. On the other hand (no pun intended), sketching is best on a blank page or one with a lightly shaded dot-grid for drawing and organizing thoughts (aka bullet journaling).Ĭover Styles: Hard and Soft Cover journals seem to handle about the same. If you have the common lefty “over-the-top” wrist curl, ruled pages might provide the guidance you need to keep your sentences from creeping up the page. Ruled or Not? We were split on this one yeah, it’s a personal preference. Letter-sized is great (8 ½ x 11), but some European standard sizes work really well also: A4 (21x30cm, or 9x12-inches), B5 (17.6 x 25cm, a bit larger than 8x10-inches) and B4 which, counter-intuitively, is actually twice the size of B5 at 25 x 35.2cm (roughly 11 x 15inches) Larger sizes seem to be easier to work with, whether on lined-ruled or blank-unlined pages. Size Matters! I find that small, even 6x9, notebooks are more difficult to write in as a lefty. When the book is opened, the pages should lay flat and make it easy to rest my wrist as I write on either page. ![]() Pages that fly up on their own are a nuisance. I hope you find it useful:ĭoes it Lay Flat? That’s feature #1, for sure. Three of my five co-workers are lefties and we’ve all faced the ugly truth – our world is made for righties! So, we got together recently to identify the key features that make a journal or notebook really work for us. If you like to write but have been frustrated by what is commonly offered, you know how important is a left-handed notebook. We make up 10% of the population, but few products seem to be made to suit our needs.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |