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 Great to Keep in the Pocket November 23, 2009
Mr. S. Kilpatrick II (Zanesville, OH)
This guy is a bit on the small side (hence it's title: "Pocket") and is fantastic for taking with you for notes and such. It's a fantastic jotter. I had purchased it to use for journaling, but found it a bit on the small side for longer entries. It's larger brothers I've found to be better suited for marathon writing.
 Love it ... way too expensive November 19, 2009
Joseph B. Napolitano (New York)
I love these things, but I go through them so quickly. If you take a lot of notes, and write with a heavy pen (paper is too thin to write on both sides with heavy pen, then you'll be choking up $12 --- as much as $20 depending on size -- every 1-2 months. A lot compared to a marble notebook which functions the same, but without that certain "thing" moleskines provide.
great for traveling November 10, 2009
Roy Gordon (Berkeley, CA USA)
I found this terrific while traveling. I use it less at home.
While we were in Peru for 3.5 weeks, even though I had a netbook and a blackberry, this small moleskin proved invaluable. It served as my, and our, durable take everywhere personal organizer. It proved the best for writing out small lists of restaurants, traveling directions, mapping out the broad itinerary in a table of the weeks, phone numbers, addresses, names, etc. Particularly where the amount of information recorded only took a line or two per item or could be obviously listed like the three distinct lines of an address.
There is a ribbon bookmark as well as an elastic band so two bookmarks. I used the elastic band to hold my current place. Sometimes I'd have to seek back quite a number of pages for some older info I needed. I could always find it easily.
The durability is amazing. I carried it everywhere, usually thrust into a front pocket. Never in my pack as I seemed to pull it out much too often. Not to mention the accordion-like back pocket for storing slips of paper, business cards, receipts, etc.
I use it less at home. It's not wide enough for some notebook like writing I have to do. I'm going to order the xlarge kraft. In addition, there's when going to the supermarket my list is simply on that scrap of paper stuffed into my back pocket. For visits to the doctor and so on, I take my netbook and the questions are in a spreadsheet.
It predominant use now is when I go to several stores and enter what I want in each one.
Also, I expect I'll need it again soon when I visit Baltimore for the first time.
A friend in a Spanish course introduced me to the moleskin and for this I can really see its value. The small, but larger, spiral notebook where I wrote down idioms, vocab, etc. was always funky. Pages would crinkle, sometimes partially separate from the spiral, the cover got creased. You know the drill. So ...
5 stars. Really, 4.7363. But did prove so valuable!
Worthwhile once you learn how to use a journal. October 15, 2009
Benjamin D. Miller (Atlantis, Bottom of Sea)
People aren't paying 10 bucks for these tiny journals for nothing and neither am I. I will say that for prose writers or for anyone that is trying to get a better value, go for the bigger-sized versions, though i don't recommend the cahiers at all. They are not worth the money. I write poetry and have been working on an epic poem that is not all 'short.' much of it has been jotted down in one of these tiny moleskines. It's amazing how much they can hold, but there are 192 pages. The main thing about any journal is learning to utilize space. I've been using journals for creative purposes since I started out in architecture at virginia tech ten years ago and i think i'm just now getting the hang of it. I really believe it's about as much of a trick as learning to utilize line breaks in poetry. One more thing: if you're using a fountain pen that's of good quality, it really doesn't take more than 20-25 seconds for the ink to dry. As for claims about bad bindings, I don't know what to say. I set one on top of my car and drove off, thought it was gone and came back to the same 55 mph road that I had taken off on two hours prior. I found the journal in the road. The cover was partially torn away and was extremely scuffed but the binding was fine. I'm guessing the bad bindings were flukes. Just my opinion. Still have the journal. Repaired with some type of black tape they use to conceal wires.
quick delivery and perfect condition September 3, 2009
E. Lee (Los Angeles, CA USA)
The notebook is very useful and can fit into my white coat pocket. it's great for jotting down notes
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