Before I purchased this Moleskine, I bought another one that had thin, flimsy pages, and attempted to do my art journaling therein. Fail. Big time. I forgot I had this one on my bookshelf until much later. After I ditched the other one, I grabbed this one off my bookshelf and figured I'd use it for a regular writing journal, assuming it was the same as the other Moleskine I had. But it isn't.