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My name is Nifty and I am a notebook addict. I own hundreds of notebooks, some filled with ideas, memories, drawings, lists, numbers, and stories… and some still empty and pristine. I’m always searching for the perfect notebook to use.
Notebook Stories presents notebooks from my collection, other people’s notebooks, new product reviews, links to other notebook resources, and explorations of the ways we use notebooks, journals, blank books, sketchbooks and the like. Join me in celebrating the notebook obsession so many of us share!
Contact me at nifty [at] notebookstories [dot] com
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16 Responses to “About Me/ Contact Me”
Hey there love the site. Glad to see there are other people addicted to notebooks too. Makes me feel all nice and fuzzy.
Thought you might be interested my little business/ not really a business just something fun to keep me busy…
Rogue’s Bindery. Quality hand bound sketchbooks and notebooks.
Made with love down here in NZ.
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Cheers,
Andrew
Check out this brand. http://www.grandluxe.com , Singapore based manufacturer since 1945.
They seems to offer good quality notebook based on some reviews I read.
http://nazley.vox.com/library/post/not-quite-a-moleskine.html
http://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=62169
Hi, please check the http://www.leuchtturm1917.com website for the Leuchtturm notebooks, which have all the benefits from all the other brands joined into one notebook or agenda!!!! I love to use them, with the numbered pages, the index in front, the good quality non bleed-through paper, and the A4+ size !!!!! ALso their PENLOOP is a simple but great product, as I always lost my pen,,,,, I use all the different size and do get good response on the red one. !!!
Leuchtturm really does it for me, I hope you are willing to try it as well, you won’t be sorry…
Hey! another notebook collector/fan. Like you I have several (edit:many) notebooks that are still pristine and unused. Some are just too nice to spoil. I am a big fan of Moleskine notebooks. Have joined your twitter feed. Great site
hi, nifty-your site is a miracle! thought i was alone in my fascination w/notebooks. i’ve been trying desperately to locate any surviving specimens of a spiral notebook i used as a junior high student in 1968-1970. it was a 9 1/2″ by 6″ spiral notebook with brown board cover, 3 section and 150 pages. what made it unique was that the wire spiral was covered with a green plastic binding. it was not a novelty item-you could buy it in any stationery or candy store and it was manufactured by one one of the big companies, mead or national, i can’t recall. i’d pay dearly to find just one for purchase! if there’s any way you can help me find one, won’t you please let me know? again, many thanks fo your fascinating website! best wishes, gil
I have really enjoyed perusing your site and have found some great new products and sites to check out. I have a question for you though. Do you know anything about the brand ‘Oh Boy’ and where to find their notebooks? I have one fatbook that I found on ebay some years ago and have had a hard time finding anything else. I would appreciate any ideas or suggestions.
Thanks,
v.
Hey Nifty. I’ve noticed a difference between some moleskine cahiers and the soft and hard covers. Some large kraft cahiers seem to have a bolder stamp, different corners, stiffer cover and possibly different paper than colored versions. Also, the soft pocket and large seem to have paper that is more white with bolder lines than the hard which have darker paper and less bold lines. I prefer squared pretty much across the board but find I am liking plain as well lately. Is this on purpose or did they change their design etc..Thanks for any info……Ted
I’m afraid I don’t know the answer to this question, but it could just be some variability in the manufacturing rather than a deliberate change.
I posted an image of some Oh Boy notebooks here. At the time, they were available from Jenni Bick, but they no longer seem to be listed on their site now. Chronicle Books is the distributor, and you can buy a few styles directly from their website.
Love the banner at the top showing so many wonderful notebooks. I also have been collecting notebooks for years and some are full, some half-full, and some still blank. But I keep finding more I love and can’t live without. Glad to know I am no alone. Sometimes thought no one else felt the way I did about notebooks, pens, pencils, etc.
Hey Nifty, you site is the paradise of notebook collectors, very very good.
Please check the website of brazilian moleskines made in recicled paper.
http://www.moleco.com.br
http://loja.moleco.com.br
Merry Xmas
R
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Hi Nifty
I just wanted to get in touch and say hello.
I’ve just started up a blog on notebooks ‘across the pond’- http://www.nicenotebooks.com. It’s there mainly to share the designs (mainly cover designs – so, quite superficial in that sense) I like, and focuses mainly on notebooks available in the UK.
Keep in touch!
Hi,
Nice website, very informative. I am hoping you can help me with my search. I saw someone take out a piece of paper from what looked like a spiral A4 notebook (didn’t catch the brand) and it had, with gray lines, a box around all margins which the horizontal lines connected to. At the top was a thin horizontal box so you could write in a heading. In the top right-hand corner, within the heading box, were three slashes (/) for the date.
Do you have any idea what brand this might be? That is exactly the kind of notebook I am dying for!
Thanks
-Robert
Nifty,
I just watched “The Brothers Bloom” with Adrian Brody and Mark Ruffalo and Rachel Wiez. A well used and very interestingly filled Moleskine shows up several times in the movie. You might enjoy it.
Phil
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