Sneak Peaks from the Secret Shopper

I thought I’d share a few photos from some notebook shopping trips around NYC over the past few months. These were furtively snapped with my cell phone, so I apologize in advance for the image quality.

The first few pictures were taken at McNally Jackson Bookstore in the SoHo/NoLIta area of NYC. It’s a fabulous bookstore, and they have a very eclectic little stationery section too.

I wish I’d bought this first one, I love the look of the cover.

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It’s hard to tell, but that’s a Leuchtturm notebook below.

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Another attractive cover… I love white birch trees in real life, and I guess I like them on notebooks too.

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A Moleskine lookalike branded as a travel journal from Rick Steves.

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The photos below are from Kinokuniya Bookstore in midtown, right across from Bryant Park. I went there before Christmas and was in total overload at the shelves and shelves of cool Japanese notebooks, pens, stickers and other assorted items.

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If you like the charmingly random use of English sometimes found on Japanese products, then you’ll love the notebook below. The cover reads “Guildford is the most charming and lovely town in Surrey. It has maintained its attractive rural villages, riverside walks, gardens, and Tudor architectures.”

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I didn’t take good notes on all the brands I found in either place, but I bought a couple of things at Kinokuniya that I’ll review soon. In the meantime, I highly recommend a visit to both shops if you happen to be in New York!

5 thoughts on “Sneak Peaks from the Secret Shopper”

  1. wow, looks great. I wish we have something of that kind here!!! unfortunately we dont have… :(

  2. I wish I could see them!!! But my workplace blocks flickr as a “media share” site to preserve bandwidth. I wish more blogs would actually embed the pictures instead of merely placing a link. Between youtube and flickr being blocked by workplace filters, the blog world is rapidly becoming a set of text pages with vacant image blocks. FWIW

  3. My favorite store and on my way home from work, which is too dangerous! I can always pick up that first one for you, just let me know.

  4. Sorry Carlos! I’ve been trying to do things to speed up my site and one of the recommendations was to host the photos elsewhere…

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