Ah , sweet child . <| sep |> You ' re best bet would be to go with a fine or extra fine nib or a Japanese fine as they will put down less ink to the paper and should bleed through less . Ultimately though , there really isn ' t much of a great solution other than finding some thicker but relatively cheap papernotebooks . Aim for notebooks that have at least 80 gsm paper . If they don ' t say what the weight is it ' s probably too thin . In UK we can get Pukka Pad ' s that are relatively cheap and won ' t bleed through on fine nibs but if you use a medium nib you will get some ghosting or bleed through . Somewhere in the middle of Rhodia and a cheap notebook would be Leuchtturm 1917 , has good quality paper and won ' t bleed or feather much . Depends where you are , most of the notebooks I mentioned have come from UKEurope so tend to be cheaper here than say in the US .