Excuse me, 11 bucks for a little notebook? What the hell is going on here?

You can get the same thing on OfficeMax for like 3 bucks.

What’s wrong with you people? Wake up!

yeah, what’s wrong with you people? You can write notes with the end of a burnt match on the bark of a birch tree! Matches are free at restaurants and diners… 3 bucks for a little notebook..

…just kidding…

Managing your personal life is a very personal thing. Some do it with 50cent-per-hundred note cards. Some use a $20 notebook. Some use a $200 PDA AND $2000 computer. Jeez - some people make a living doing it for other people (so someone is paying many thousands of dollars for it)

If you can afford it, and it works for you, then why not do it that way? A tool you like is a tool you’ll use.

Well anon, like I always say, it’s a preference, and those things are awfully hard to defend. Your point, such as it is, has been perpetually taken numerous times here.

(For reference to future drive-by karmasucks: your illuminating observations are much more likely to remain here when they arrive with an accountable name and email address.)

Moleskine is a primitive notebook, ridiculous overpriced. But they make good money with people jumping on every train, so what?

merlin, i almost feel like this post was meant for me. yesterday, when i went out on my picture-taking expedition, i took my quadrille notebook (obvs), only to find it had fallen out of my pocket within the first 15 or 20 minutes of the excursion. now, i spose there’s hope that someone will be nice and mail it to me or call or something, but i had pretty much resolved myself to its being gone for good.

now, this, though. totally hot. i’m ordering one immediatement. will report back.

“Moleskine is a primitive notebook…”

Them’s fightin’ words.

Seriously, I find them to be anything but primitive. They’re very well constructed, durable as hell, and as configurable as you want them to be. Mine serves about half a dozen different functions, and I’m quite a bit more organized since I got it. I didn’t get them either, until I got my own. But Merlin’s right: it’s mostly a personal thing.

The reporter model looks cool, but I don’t think I’d enjoy it so much. I’ve never found that style to be very convenient at all. Don’t really care for flipping vertically through pages, especially when I’m writing.

I got mine on Tuesday from Ninth Ways Design, and I love it. I do not use it for the more private reflective writing I do in my traditional notebook, I am using it to keep track on information in my professional life. (Yes there are cheaper options, but it’s a matter of taste).

I was a little fearful the first time, but yes, you can flip the top cover all the way back without any apparent serious damage to the spine. This is what I wanted, as I am often scribbling notes standing up, and flipping the cover back permits the notebook to be supported one-handed without a desk.

Somehow, the simple change in format makes the experience very different, inspiring a different kind of writing, opening up new frontiers. I like.

I use NYPD style leather binders with regular reporter notebooks. Moleskine ones seem to be missing binder rings that all reporter notebooks I’ve seen have.

Picture of one at use: http://www.flickr.com/photos/stompy/6671593/

How’s that for a contrast - a 1930s fountain pen and an 2004 PowerBook?

I don’t think the binding is as sturdy as the sidebound journals, probably because there is less of it.

Will have to give them a try soon, which is good because it will make me want to write more to use the ones I currently have.

Didn’t see anything about if any of the pages are tear off. I hope so, especially in that format.