This is an okay sketchbook. The paper is similar to heavier weight copy paper. It's smooth, crisp, and takes pencil, color pencil, and ink pen of various types well, and there are a good number of pages. The hardcover is firm enough to support the sketchbook if you want to draw somewhere without a table, and the spine allows the pages to open flat. On the con side, the paper isn't heavy enough for any wet media. The biggest drawback for me is that the material on the cover doesn't wrap around the cover boards. It was merely glued to the chipboard and then the whole thing was trimmed. The cover material will not protect the edges from water or humidity, or the rigors of riding around in a backpack. There's an elastic band to hold the pages closed under those conditions, but the cover itself is going to fray and split apart if it's carried around as much as most people like to do with their sketchbooks.
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