Moleskine Large Plain Notebook | List Price: $24.95
Discount Price: $13.98
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Brand: Moleskine
Binding: Office Product
Features: - More space to make notes. 240 plain pages. Imported from Italy. 5¼" x 8¼"
- Purchase in quantity today to best build your Moleskine bookshelf. The future is unwritten. Take up your pen and shape it.
- Each Moleskine has a rigid, oilcloth bound 'moleskine' cover, and the acid free paper pages are thread bound.
- They also have an elastic closure and an expandable inner note holder made of cardboard and oilcloth and a removable card with the moleskine history.
- A great way to get things done! Digest-sized for easy note-taking.
I really want to love Moleskine notebooks... [Posted on 2007-12-07]
...but I don't. They're the perfect size, the perfect weight, there's that excellent handy little pocket in the back, and yet, and yet. The paper in the regular notebooks is too thin to stand up to liquid ink, so my writing bleeds through and I can only write on one side of a page. But the paper in the sketchbooks has some kind of coating on it that liquid ink beads up on and smears before it can dry. If they could make a sketchbook with uncoated pages that take bottled ink well, Moleskine would win my heart. But since they don't, they haven't. Sob.
Exactly what I was looking for in a journal... [Posted on 2008-04-03]
I have tried to get into journaling for a number of years. I have done a number of things to try to forge faithfulness in this discipline, however, with each new idea or method my enthusiasm and consistency slowed waned. In the fall of 2007 I was faced afresh with the reality of aging, the brevity of life, the goodness of God, the desire to capture God's faithfulness in our lives for our kids to see when the get older, and a burden to train my heart to daily revisit and rejoice in the manifold blessings of divine grace.
Having then been convinced of the need to journal I needed a canvas. So I decided to research various journals. Nothing caught my eye initially, everything seemed like the same old journal and none of it really reflected my life or something I wanted to carry around daily in my bag. Nothing caught my eye until I came across the Moleskine.
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According to their website the Moleskine...
Moleskine is the heir of the legendary notebook used for the past two centuries by great artists and thinkers, including Vincent Van Gogh, Pablo Picasso, Ernest Hemingway, and Bruce Chatwin.
This trusty, pocket-sized travel companion held their sketches, notes, stories, and ideas before they became famous images or beloved books. The little black notebook, with its typical rounded corners, elastic closure, and expandable inner pocket, was originally a nameless object. It was produced by a small French bookbinder, that supplied Parisian stationery shops frequented by the international literary and artistic avant-garde for more than a century.
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So perhaps the history initially attracted me but it takes more than this to keep me. I checked out a large notebook without lines at a local bookstore. I was impressed with the firm (cardboard bound) black cover and the quality of the thread bound acid free pages. The elastic closure works well and is extremely durable. In addition to a bookmark, there is an expandable inner pocket made of cardboard and cloth that is perfect for you to keep lists, important notes, or other items of interest.
Some have critiqued the pages and their transparency. I have not found it to be an issue. I typically use a Pilot V5 but the ever popular G2 works fine as well. I have also used a Fountain Pen and (as is always the case) as long as the ink gets time to dry it is fine.
I use my Moleskine as a journal to capture what God is doing in my life, what he is teaching me, how he is convicting me, chronicles of family events, various random thoughts about life and ministry, as a prayer journal, sermon notebook, and anything else that happens upon my mind that may contribute to the bottom line. It truly has been a great addition to the regular starting lineup.
Nice but kind of expensive [Posted on 2008-08-15]
I think this is the nicest notebook you can buy. I just wish they made a larger hard cover notebook.
One thing that bugs me is that they say "imported from Italy", but it says on the notebook printed and bound in China, designed and assembled in Italy. I don't care where it comes to the US from, to me that's made in China, and it should have a made in China price to go with it
Perfect For The Creative Person! [Posted on 2008-09-18]
I absolutely love this notebook! As a creative person, I constantly am making notes of ideas, inspiration, and drawings...this is a perfect size for carrying with me and having it right at my finger tips when needed. There is something so very appealing about the way it feels in your hands and the paper is quality...you can use front and back without any worry of bleeding from dark inks...although, I use whatever I am in the mood to use...pencil, ink, pastels, even watercolor! When I fill this notebook, I will definitely get another one and will finally have a collection that are all consistent and can be stored neatly.
i'm not surprised that i fell in love with this journal right away!!!! [Posted on 2008-10-02]
I only have two other Moleskines, a small ruled one and a small ruled reporters. i absolutly love these but im kinda crossing over from writing to drawing so this is my first LARGE book and my first PLAIN book. i am very pleased. i think this is going to use this for sketching and writing! i cant wait to fill this up! I know people are hesitint to buy these because of their price but it is well worth it. this is the only packeged journal i can buy without worring about the paper quality beacause Molskine is always the best. don't wast your time buying cheap imitations thAT will fall apart within a week! buy this and it will last a lifetime!
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