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11-26-03

Moleskine Notebooks

Do you know about those legendary notebooks you can buy at Barnes & Noble as touted by the late author Bruce Chatwin? They come in several sizes; the pocket size (just a tad larger than a 3 x 5 card) is perfect for a breast pocket or cargo pants pocket. The paper is acid free and rich enough to take ink, so you can sketch as well as take notes, but the most useful feature is the elastic band (which is a built in bookmark) that holds the notebook together -- you can stuff business cards, clippings, sketches on napkins between the pages, and the rubberized cloth thing holds them all together until you can find a place for the scraps. I've carried mine literally around the world.

--Howard Rheingold

Moleskine Notebooks
Come in squared, lined, or plain
96 leaves
$11 from Moleskine US

Also a large selection, including this $8 notebook from Amazon.

The backstory about Bruce Chatwin is amusing.

 


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#1 | Sat, 03-21-09 07:53
Maria Ciccia

Hi,
I am interested in using a hi-res image of yours for a catalog that I am putting together for Altered Art materials. Please let me know if this is accessible to me. It's the image of the moleskine notebook with the pages flopping in the air. It would be printed approximately 11"x17" in the background.

http://www.kk.org/cooltools/archives/000200.php

Thank you,
Maria Ciccia

 
#2 | Fri, 06-26-09 05:49
Captain Packrat

I carried one of these around in my back pocket for over a year. They're nifty notebooks, but they're not very sturdy. Mine fell apart after just a few weeks and I ended up repairing it several times with black electrical tape. With repairs, it lasted for about a year before the binding disintegrated.

 

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