Bullet Journals

[fellinara]

Hi Everyone! I'm pretty new to bullet journalling and am looking at getting a Leuchttrum 1917 journal. Amazon has them on Prime for just shy of $20. I'm currently using a small temp bullet journal for August to get an idea on what spreads and collections will work for me and which ones are not really. I see that these journals/notebooks (also Moleskine and a few other brands)use a system of type of journal(??) such as A5, A6, etc. New to the bullet journal movement, I am not entirely sure what that means. I figured if anyone knows, it will be here.

Thanks!

Comments

[alexseanchai]

I'm not 100% sure, but I'd bet money A5 and A6 are paper sizes.

[inkstone]

They're definitely paper sizes.

[annofowlshire]

A5 and A6 are paper sizes, usually used outside of the US. This was very confusing to me when I moved to the US to the UK XD A5 is the next size down from what you would consider "letter" sized paper. When I think of your average blank book at the Barnes and Nobles, it would be around A5 in spirit if not in measurements.

(The post above me linked to the actual measurements).

[anke]

An A5 Leuchtturm 2017 is 8 3/16 by 5 3/4 inches big

A6 is 5 7/8 by 3 9/16 inches

Measuring the cover, the pages being a little smaller.

[eleanorjane]

A/B/C are the standard systems of paper and document sizing, used almost everywhere that isn't the US. A and B are paper sizes, C is for envelopes. Usually.

Handy tip: each sizing is half the size of the size before it. So if you start with a piece of A4 paper and fold it in half, you get A5. Half again and it's A6. Etc.

This Wikimedia image shows it nicely.

A4 is approx the equivalent of US Letter paper. A5 is the equivalent of "Large" Moleskines, and journals of that size.