KOKUYO Composition Notebooks, 5 Pack Campus Semi-B5 Comp Book with B 6mm Ruled, 30 Sheets, Classic School Lined Notebook, Journal Notebook for Women Work Study Note Taking (NO-3CBNx5)

I bought these KOKUYO composition notebooks thinking, “It’s paper. How different can it be?” That was my first mistake. This is not normal paper. This is premium, disciplined, Japanese-engineered paper that silently judges your handwriting and somehow makes it improve. Let’s start with the pages. Smooth. Ridiculously smooth. Pens glide like they’re late for a meeting. No feathering. No bleed-through. I’ve thrown gel pens, ballpoints, and highlighters at these pages and they just take it. My usual notebooks look like crime scenes after five minutes. These look composed. Calm. Professional. The ruling is perfect. Not too wide, not too cramped. It’s the Goldilocks zone of lines. Suddenly my notes are organized. Bullet points line up. Diagrams make sense. I didn’t change as a person—the notebook elevated me against my will. The covers are simple but sturdy. They don’t bend if you look at them wrong. Tossed into a backpack with a laptop, charger, water bottle, and general chaos, they come out intact. Corners still sharp. Spine still holding. No loose pages trying to escape mid-semester. Size-wise, Semi-B5 is elite. Bigger than a standard comp book, smaller than “why did I bring a textbook.” Plenty of room to write without feeling like you’re drafting blueprints. It feels intentional, like someone actually thought about how humans take notes. The paper is thin but strong. You can flip pages quickly without ripping, and it doesn’t feel cheap. It’s that rare combo of lightweight and durable, like it shouldn’t exist but does anyway. Downsides? These notebooks will raise your standards permanently. Every other notebook now feels inferior. You’ll start noticing bad paper. You’ll judge it. Quietly. Constantly. Bottom line: these notebooks are absurdly good. They make studying feel more serious, notes look cleaner, and handwriting improve through peer pressure from paper. Five stars. I fear what I’ll accomplish if I keep using these.

This year I decided to try out these notebooks instead of my typical spiral bound or composition books, since I don't typically use a full notebook in class and feel like I'm being wasteful when I use up too much of the notebook to reuse it another semester but still have too many sheets to just toss out. I liked how these had properly bound spines, which means there's no fear of denting or scraping my computer or rental-books. The paper is very nice, seems like it has a good tooth to it and is a good thickness for note taking. I like how there's no wasted space with a margin and that each one has a space for a date and such. The color of the blue lines is nice, not too thin or too light, not too thick or too dark. This particular kind of Campus notebook only has dots/guides on the first and last lines, not on each one like some other kinds of Campus notebook. While these are pretty small books, I feel like they're still very functional. I love the color variation; makes it easy to tell them apart for different subjects. Despite the way the spines are bound, they still allow the notebook to lay flat. The whole of the book is pretty flexible, you can actually roll it up into a tube. Overall, I'm very happy with these notebooks and think I'll purchase these from now on. Yes, they're a little pricey, but I think the quality overall makes them worth it. I use them for my college classes and I much prefer taking these with me than carrying several of the larger notebooks. Saves a lot of space in my bag. Oh, and for anyone wondering, the difference between the A and B Campus notebooks is simply the space sizes and line count. A notebooks have larger spaces and less lines (so it's like wide-ruled compared to college rule, though I think these books tend to be even smaller than college ruled) while B notebooks have smaller spaces and more lines.

That's notebooks are great. I love the texture of the paper and how pens just glide across it. They are inexpensive and the colors are very pretty.

This things are a MUST! For college, it’s very useful, perfect for basic classes where you have to write on the most important, they make me feel so aesthetic so makes me want to study more, lol. 😆

They are a perfect size thin with plenty of pages but I ran out of all of them near the end of the semester so I gotta repurchase

Perfectly sized notebooks. Love the quality of the paper. Feels great to write on and the ink doesn’t smudge. Love the color options as well.

These notebooks are genuinely the best! I just got them and I will never be able to go back to those cheap old american notebooks ever! They are silky smooth and regular American notebook paper feels like sandpaper compared to these. It is also very satisfying that they lay completely flat and write nicely. I put some stickers on the front of mine and they are (unintentionally) the perfect matching color. Sharpies (along with the stickers) stick well and do not budge when trying to remove them. (It is a downside if you make a mistake or need to switch up stickers, though). The spine is very sturdy, textured and gives me something to stim with during long school hours. For this price, it’s almost too good to be true! The business ones were wayyy more expensive and got lost during shipping and I eventually needed to cancel them, so you know I had to get these ones. I feel they’ll be great for studying, organizing thoughts and doodling in class easily. The flat design also won’t destroy my hand like those ringed ones do. But because they are so sturdy, you can’t remove pages. I feel like my sticky notes and scissors will handle that, though.

These are very pretty and the paper is nice and smooth, which is great for writing. I do wish they were a little thicker, but it works just fine.

Ist ein bisschen kleiner als gedacht, aber man gewöhnt sich leicht dran. Das Papier ist sehr hochwertig und fühlt sich beim schreiben gut an. Ist auch wie beschrieben in Japan hergestellt. 👍🏻

Je les utilise comme cahier de brouillon pour apprendre le japonais. Rien à redire dessus

5冊でこの値段は助かります。

Love it. Love the color scheme and I love how it's open flat and I could write smoothly! Love this purchase 😍