Dingbats Earth Collection A5+ Notebook
My review
Last year I reviewed the Dingbats Wildlife Collection A5+ Notebook. You can read that review here.
I purchased this Earth Collection notebook a couple of months ago and have just got around to the point of needing it. I like the A5+ size as it gives a little extra width to the pages. The size is 15.5 x 21.5cm (6.1 x 8.5in).
The paper, like the Wildlife Collection, is excellent. It is ideal for all pen types which is good for me because I use fountain pens and don’t want feathering or bleed-through. The paper lets me write smoothly and without causing any issues with my fountain pens. The notebook is 100% recyclable with a degradeable faux leather cover. There is a choice of colours and animal themes in the following sizes: A5+ A4+ A6 and A6+, subject to stock availability, in the colour of your choice.
The paper is cream coloured and is acid free. I chose the dot grid paper, but you can select lined, grid or plain pages. All the paper is made from sustainable sources and has the FSC approval.
Dingbats are an eco-conscious company and dontate 2% of all UK sales to the World Wildlife Fund. The books are Vegan and this notebook has some differences to the Wildlife Collection, the first Dingbats Notebook that I bought. The notebooks are produced in Turkey, a nice change from China.
Like the Wildlife Collection, the Earth Collection has an expandable pocket inside the back cover and an elastic pen loop. It does however have two ribbon bookmarks rather than one. All the notebooks are stitched and truly open flat. In the Wildlife Collection the pages are perforated so they could be removed, but in this notebook there are no perforations. Both have an elastic closure.
A few other differences concern the pages. In the Earth Collection they are numbered from page one after the “how to” page, a Tab Key, Colour Key/Dingbat Key and three index pages. These are all very useful for journalling, somewhat similar to Bullet Journalling, though it doesn’t have to be used specifically for this. Pages one to four are faintly marked out for anyone wishing to create a “Future Log”, something done in the Bullet Journal Method1.
In the “how to” section Dingbats explain a method similar to Bullet Journalling and have suggested some ways to organise this notebook if you were going to use it to journal. It’s very helpful and would work. Each page has a very faint semicircle, marked along the outer edge, where you can use colours to help you find things, according to the colour key you have assigned.
For clarity, I purchased this notebook from Dingbats and have no connection with them. This review is entirely independent. Here is the Dingbats Notebooks website
I really enjoy using Dingbats Notebooks and look forward to filling this new one. The quality is superb and the ethos of the company is to be highly commended.
Let me know if you use Dingbats Notebooks, or your experience with any other brand.
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