Dotted Journal - Lemome Dotted Numbered Pages Hardcover A5 Notebook with Pen Holder - Premium Thick Paper + Bonus Gifts (Black) Office Product

This is the second Lemome "The Way We Think" dotted journal that I have purchased. I bought it a second time because I love the first one and when I filled it I tried others (including other Lemome brand journals) but never found another that was so perfect for my usage style.The journal has the essential for a bullet journal such as a contents page, individually numbered pages and each page has faint dots with 5mm separation, there is a good pen loop, two bookmarks and a strong pocket inside the back cover. The journal comes in lovely packaging along with a chunky pen, some erasable tabs to mark pages, a flexible 15cm/6" black ruler, a couple sheets of emoji stickers (which I have no use for personally) and oddly a sheet of Deer "tattoo's"!The journal cover is hard and thick with an embossed tree design, under which is the phrase "The Way We Think". I have no idea as to the significance of these two items, but the embossing is nice, deep and well defined.The pages are thick enough to show no image through from the page behind and while the included pen writes quite smoothly, I prefer to use a Pilot V5 Hi-Tecpoint 0.5mm as the included one is too chunk to hold comfortably in my hands.I would love to give this journal a full five star rating however there is something very wrong with "THIS" journal. I say THIS one because my previous one had no problems.This particular journal was poorly constructed. I can only imagine that the glue used was a bad batch or maybe just not enough was used; after a month of use the pages separated from the spine. Then a few days later the back page that is glued to the rear hard cover started to separate. Then, after about a week the elastic that wraps around and holds the journal closed spirited from the rear cover. It's gone. It was lost.So I had to re-glue everything. I bought a cheap notebook from a supermarket that had a orange elastic which I cut out and attached to my notebook before glueing everything back together. I used Gorilla Glue. The elastic is orange rather than yellow and a little long but it does the job if I wrap it around the notebook slightly different to the intended way (see pictures). The journal is now well held together and shows no further signs of separation.The lie-flat pages don't lie flat. Or at least they don't since I had to glue everything back together. So I use a clip to hold the page down that I am writing on - no bother.So would I recommend the Lemome journal to other Bullet Journaller's? Yes, without hesitation, but I would warn that some *may* experience problems with the workmanship.

I've bought two of these now, and while the journal itself is sturdy, with reasonably thick pages (and quite a good number of pages, too), the accessories it comes with are not quite on the same level. This journal comes with a pen, along with some stickers and a flexible ruler. The stickers I've barely used, and probably won't, as they are emoji stickers and not what I want in the journal. The pen is useless. It writes fine, but both times now it has become unusable due to part of the base of the pen becoming stuck within the lid when I put the lid onto the base while writing (as you do). That means the lid won't go on the pen any more, and eventually will dry out and become unusable, or you are just left with a lidless pen. That aside, the journal itself is good, and easy to use, with an index page and numbered pages. I find sharpies do bleed through the pages, so the coloured pens I use are the tomaxis dual tip art marker pens (with a brush end and a fine end). These work fine and for the most part do not bleed through (except slightly with heavy colours, so keep the shading light and it should be fine).

Excellent value for money. All the little extras are making using my new BuJo so much more fun! Black ruler is useful and very good quality pen. Pages are numbered, there is table of contents. It’s my third Journal, got two teal and pink ones too, absolutely love them. Highly recommend.

I stumbled across bullet journaling by accident, and decided to have a go. I did my first journal in a lined book that had been gifted to me, and realised there were hidden benefits to be had, so I decided to continue. Almost every bujo-er recommends using a dot-grid book, but most of them are comparatively expensive. I chose this book because I felt it provided good value for money.The pages are thick, and the pen provided and biros don't show through.The pen isn't great. Mine works for a while, then it starts skipping, and by the bottom of the page it's really annoying (not great if you are writing a lot in one go).The pen loop is included. These are expensive if you want to buy as an extra, and although you can do that funny thing to attach a pen using the book elastic, it makes the elastic loose after a while. The dedicated pen loop is much better.The stickers and ruler are great. I'm not sure what to do with the temporary tattoos!I've seen other reviewers comment about the binding. Mine is fine. I would recommend buyers to gently break in the spine to minimise the likelihood of problems.All in all, it's really good for the price.

I have ordered this journal before and was happy with it but when I ordered it this time the bonus accessories were missing. It wasn't a big deal but I thought I would mention it in the review. Overall I am happy with the product, the journal so far seems sturdy but I'll give an update once I've used it for a longer period of time

This is a really nice bullet journal. Lovely sturdy outer cover! Pages are nice and thick and only bleed through I’ve had is when pages have got accidentally wet with drips of water which is entirely my own fault! Nice index page and page numbers for convenience. I loved the addition of a ruler and pen with it and the stickers too to add decoration to your pages. The glitter tattoos are a bit of a weird addition, and to be honest I would have fathered a few stencils or something else useful to the journal - but that’s just a small niggle.The journal was beautifully presented in a box and makes a lovely gift. Great starter journal and not too expensive compared to some other options out there.