Lamy’s softcover notebooks have firm covers – not really soft, but a little flexible. There’s a choice of colours chosen to match the much-loved Lamy safari range’s most popular colours.

192 pages, with two ribbon page markers in different colours, a back pocket, a pen loop, and eight perforated pages you can remove for when you need to pass a note to someone else.

The paper is high quality 90gsm ‘ink proof’ ivory paper, made to perform well with fountain pens as well as any other type of pen, as you’d expect from Lamy. It’s acid-free, for long-term archival use.

The ruling is referred to as ‘Lamy Ruling’ – it’s not quite lined, and not quite squared, but a combination of the two. Small squares are marked in dotted lines, with every second horizontal line solid instead of dotted. The result is a useful and flexible combination – ignore the dotted lines, and it’s a ruled notebook, perfect for writing, which is the main use for a notebook for most of us. Pay attention to those dotted lines, though, and it’s a squared notebook, ideal for drawing tables, diagrams, or going more free-form with your notes.