17 August 06
City Notebook
I have yet to become a member of the cult of Moleskine, but Pica has been looking into these notebooks as a possibility for a journal. On their site today she noticed an upcoming product of theirs that will be very neat. This is their line of City Notebooks. They describe this as “the guidebook you write yourself.” Each of these notebooks has an overview map and a set of street maps together with many blank pages, tabs, and overlays to allow you to write out your own notes about a city. Their line of European city notebooks will be out in the fall, with the United States ones to follow in Spring of 2007.
- Hmmm. If there’s a line more pretentious than Levenger’s, Moleskine qualifies. I’ve found the best journals to be the approx. 5×7 spiral-bound notebooks sold nearly everywhere; many of them have a pocket inside the front and back covers where I can stick loose bits. I have stacks and stacks of these things; they’re handy, inexpensive, and do what I want them to, which is provide me with a place to write. But trying to find the all-purpose journal/calendar/address book/to-do list portmanteau-type thing is akin to the search for the Holy Grail; a co-worker and I used to compare our “finds,” always thinking we’d hit on the perfect thing, but they’re always either too bulky or too small or too something . . .— Babz 18. August 2006, 06:25 Link
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