This is a perfect little notebook for my needs, which is a small professional diary. The hardback cover is substantive and I love the red color as it stands out so it never gets lost amongst the mess on my desk. Like someone else had mentioned, the ONLY thing I don't like about it is that if you use a particularly heavy ink (like a sharpie) it will bleed through to the next page. I use pretty heavy ink in a ball point, and depending how heavy i write once in a while the ink soaks through so I can't use the pages double-sided; but usually it's not a problem and I write on both sides of the pages most of the time without problems.