I stopped by a Borders store in Southbury, Connecticut this weekend, and look what I saw: Barnes & Noble isn’t the only chain bookstore offering some exclusive Moleskine items– Borders offers this “brick,” a lined notebook bundled with 2 cahiers: This display of journals was quite attractive. I tend to use mainly plain black journals, … Continue reading Weekend Shopping
Here’s someone who has re-covered her Copenhagen City Notebook. If scenes of notebook destruction make you squeamish, beware! But the end result is quite nice, if you are someone who gets bored by plain black covers:
Head on over to Black Cover to enter the contest to win some samples of the Picadilly notebooks, a low-priced Moleskine alternative. Enter by October 30th!
Biffybeans has a review of an interesting travel journal. Although I’m sure this is a great product for some people, I was somewhat turned off by the highly formatted nature of the pages: Sometimes it’s nice to be prompted to enter certain data, but for the most part, I think I am more of a … Continue reading Notebooks With Pre-Formatted Pages
How true this is: A simple, quality notebook can give you just as much of a buzz as owning the latest iPhone, Palm, Blackberry or other device. How to rank your Moleskine addiction at Put Things Off.
I found this fascinating: The Paper Version of the Web. I love seeing the way people think out concepts on paper, especially things like websites, which to me seem almost too fluid and flickering to nail down that way.
I like the look of these Canteo notebooks, featured at Notebookism. Too bad they only seem to be available in Switzerland!
There’s lots of discussion amongst Moleskine fans about which pens are best for use on Moleskine paper. Here’s the most exhaustive list of pen reviews I’ve found, at a blog called Sandscribbler. The author’s favorites: Uni-ball Signo RT 0.38 The best Moleskine pen that I’ve found so far. Pilot G-2 05 and the Uni-ball Signo … Continue reading Best Pens for Moleskines
An Etsy seller is making little matchbook-like notebooks as samples to promote her line of journals– very cute!
At Megaquotes, there’s quite a list of quotes about writing. The ones below made me think about my own notebooks: So often is the virgin sheet of paper more real than what one has to say, and so often one regrets having marred it. ~Harold Acton, Memoirs of an Aesthete, 1948 (All those nice fresh … Continue reading Quotable Quotes