Here’s a notebook that sent me into a wave of nostalgia: the Note Pad Folio from Sideshow Press.

The pressboard cover reminds me so much of various notebooks I had as a kid into my college years. I had a blue report cover made of this material, with a spring-action clip inside. I also had similar ones with the same kind of metal attachments you see in the Sideshow notepad, except that they were positioned along the spine, to hold 3-hole punched paper. And my freshman chemistry lab notebook in college had a cover made of this same board, but in brown. Why don’t more notebooks feature covers like this? It has a color variation that is very pleasant, a smooth texture, and seems fairly durable, though I seem to remember that it stained easily if it got wet.

Sideshow has some other nice looking journals and notebooks too, including these: