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Buyeuropean is a place where people can discuss to buy products and services from the European Union, and also from the UK and all the countries located in Europe. We have been alive for several weeks now.

From digital products and services and subscriptions to groceries clothes, stationery, etc. Also to discover new shops and retails to buy.

We hope to help people interested in buying european goods to stop depending on products and services from the USA to find something they need, and also to share what european brands and products they know!

There are quite good quality paper notebooks in Europe, these are the ones I know:

Rhodia/Clairefontaine/Oxford - French, with one of the best quality paper I know. Not very expensive, Rhodia is the most expensive one, and Oxford the cheapest, often used at schools.

Miquelrius - Spanish, quite good paper, quite good price

Moleskine - Italian, the most expensive of the lot, and very famous, its paper quality is not good if you use fountain pens

Leuchtturm - German, similar to Moleskine and in several product lines, quite good quality paper.

Dingbats - British, very good paper, and they give a percentage of what they earn to projects related to nature protection. A bit cheaper than Moleskine and Leuchturm

Online - Another german brand, decent paper. In the Rhodia/clairefontaine price range

Do you know any other notebook brands from Europe? would like to try some more (bit crazy about stationery)

Filen – Next Generation End-To-End Encrypted Cloud Storage. Get started with 10 GB of free space.

Filen is a German cloud storage service with additional services. It encrypts all archives and comms, has an option to write notes (text, markdown, code, lists, etc). And you also can make contacts using the app and chat with them via text, encrypted as well.

They have free accounts with 10 GB space, and you can refer other new users (you will get an additional 10 GB for each referral with a 40 GB limit), and the one referred also gets 10 GB more.

Also interesting lifetime option, 100 GB for 29,95 and smaller and bigger plans with monthly payments.

I have this one and have stopped using Dropbox or Google Drive. Very happy.

HMD Global is a smartphone and tablet company that surged from Nokia and now has smartphones and tablets. They outsource the manufacture mainly to China and India, but they are now starting to maufacture its 5G models in Europe: https://www.hmd.com/en_ae/press/hmd-begins-manufacturing-5g-smartphones-in-europe

As you know, Goodreads is owned by Amazon, so if you want an alternative in Europe here you hace a couple:

• Bookwyrm (www.joinbookwyrm.com) is the fediverse federated books discovrery and communities alternative to Goodreads. There are many european instances, so you just have to search for one that covers your interests and join.

• The StoryGraph (https://www.thestorygraph.com/) - It is headquartered in London, and isd a platform for discovering and reviewing books, with several social features.

Do you know other alternatives to Goodreads in Europe?

I know Afri Kola (not much, only have had it a couple of times in Germany) and Fritz Kola (moree common in other countries, delicious, also other flavours, orange and apple are very very good).

This is a list with some european alternatives to Amazon and eBay, at least in part. It is oriented to small shops that would want to list its productos in them, but list the web of all of them.

Just one thing: the number 5, Rakuten PriceMinister, is not european animore because was bought by Rakuten, that is Japanese, but anyway, its origins are French I think.

What othe marketplaces and online multibrand shops do you know? I will add to this ones PCComponentes (www.pccomponentes.com), a Spanish Technology and Electronics one, that also has presence in Portugal, France, Italy and Germany. In Spain is quite big and well known.

A list of European services and products on Github, collaborative, meaning that you can add services there. Is even bigger in some categories than the one we have pinned here.

Trump has said that he is going to impose reciprocal tariffs... and he already considers European VAT a tariff. So we,d better start finding substitutes from Europe mainly to product and services from the USA..

This web has european alternatives to many online services from other countries: email-providers, domain registrars, machine translators, CDNs, web analytics services, cloud computing services, hosters....have a look, I find it very useful