I've purchased approximately 5 variations of this notebook. It's very good at what it does. I prefer the blue to the beige/tope, which looks a bit like a russet potato skin. The notebook is very well bound with high quality paper that doesn't feather when I use my fountain pens on it. The pocket in the back is nice. It's not quite big enough to store a full page of letter paper unfolded. Dot Grid allows me to use the page as needed without having to worry about being in or out of the lines.