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I was on a similar hunt, looking for a smooth papered sketchbook to take the place of printer paper which I got tired of organizing.

I settled on the Artist's Loft hardbound sketchbook from Michaels, which is fairly smooth and takes ink and marker pretty well (with minimal bleeding).

But if you want a spiral binding, check out the Canson XL sketch pad. I haven't used it but it's one of the options I looked at in-store and found it to be the smoothest sketchbook paper I've seen by far. I didn't pick it because the Artist Loft paper is thicker and I prefer the square binding, but the Canson was a close second and when I finish up my current sketchbook I'm grabbing one.