PTrainorMoleskine is a lifestyle company with a notebook theme, not a notebook company. Their paper quality is and has always been, on average, *unusable garbage*.
I don't even mind the lifestyle angle; that's a fair cop in the age of startups and fast money. But there's no substance behind it, and I cannot justify paying this much for paper with worse characteristics than office letter, in a world with Rhodia and Tomoe River and others.
@GAMMOO i've had amazing feathering on moleskine, even with an XF. you can actually watch the ink "jump" along the rough strands of fiber embedded in the page.
GAMMOOIt is the gms of the paper - they use a lesser weight paper, and they always bleed or ghost. Moleskine really needs to change their paper weight.