Very well made product, with a very nice attractive color. I'm all about the details when I'm paying a premium price for a notebook. The truth is, you don't need to spend so much if all you care about is something to write in, am i right? But if you want something special, this is money well spent. So, to the details: For me the paper remains the most welcoming of any of the notebooks I have. Yes, there is better/thicker paper, but the Moleskine paper is good in its own way. It's 120 sheets of paper in a tight package. Because of that, there's some see-through, but it's not bad. The light-cream colored paper is opaque enough and the narrowly-spaced, ruled lines are sufficiently dark so it's not annoying when you use the back of a page. The pens that I use make a nice bite into the soft paper. I like that. It's one of the small pleasant details. The yellow orange is my current favorite color, even more than the red. The black notebooks can hide in plain sight, but this one isn't hiding anywhere.