Ooh, ooh, ooh! Check out this page at Piccadilly’s website.

Apparently they’re introducing softcover notebooks! So far just a lined version, in small, medium and large sizes.

I contacted someone at Piccadilly to get the full scoop: the lined softcover notebooks will be available around the end of September in the bargain section at Borders stores and on the Piccadilly website. Just lined for now, but they plan to have other styles at a later date.

I also took the opportunity to ask about some of the quality concerns many Piccadilly users have expressed, mainly that the elastics were lousy and lost their stretch too fast. In response to those concerns, Piccadilly has improved the elastic on all their notebooks, using a thicker, better quality elastic. I recently bought a small graph paper notebook and so far, that elastic does seem to be holding up much better than the original lined notebook I bought last winter, which went slack almost immediately when I’d barely even used it.

On Twitter, ecram mentioned that he’d heard Piccadilly was upgrading their paper from 80gsm to 100gsm– it turns out this is not true. Piccadilly makes other products with 100 gsm paper, but the line of hardcover and softcover notebooks will stay at 80gsm.

Stay tuned for more Piccadilly reviews sometime this fall!