These were my favorite notebooks to sketch and write in.. But the quality of these are not the same anymore. The paper are extra thin in comparison to my older moleskine I've had for over 10 years ago. I seriously see-thru. I used a 9h derwent graphite pencil to light sketch and it left a indentation on the other side of the page. I used a micron pen to do some line drawings and it bled through the page instantly. WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU MOLESKINE?? I was so excited to get this, but it's almost unusable - i can only draw on the cover. From some research, it looked like the company outsource it's manufacturing from Italy to Vietnam, but kept the prices at premium for these books. The quality dropped but price didn't. This generation of notebooks are probably rated as printer paper.