Why a Moleskine? To those who don’t understand, spending what seems an inordinate amount of money on a notebook seems a particularly silly thing to do. And while there certainly is a measure of hype (marketing and otherwise) surrounding the Moleskine, the underlying fact is that these journals are of a higher quality than the run-of-the-mill, supermarket-stationery-section spiral notebook. To people who enjoy the act of writing as much as the process of it, this is important.
The journals themselves have a certain old-fashioned look to them that doesn’t have the feel of a modern mass-market stack of paper. No matter the rather tenuous connections made with famous writers and their “moleskines,” these journals are a pleasure to use and carry around.
Are they the finest notebooks ever made by human hands? Well, no. But despite the hype, they are an enjoyable tool to use for this writer, and many others seem to agree.
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And if you’d like to see a cool hack for those who are more into getting things down than being pretty or expensive about it ;) check out Josh Teeters’s awesome WalMart Moleskine.
