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[Armand]

Hi! Welcome to the Moleskinerie Log Book. I'm from Illinois, in the U.S.A. We're glad you joined.

[Libby Meyer]

I just found your site today through Danny Gregory's blog. Awesome! I have now dug out my dusty Moleskin journal and ready to draw and write again. I am in Oklahoma. Wondering which is the most popular size for most people. I've used both small and large sketchbook sizes...I think I like the larger.

[Mike]

I like the small ones. They fit easily in my pocket and seem to be the more traditional versions. The large ones aren't bad but just a bit big for me. I can get about 110 words a page in the small ones.

[Rui Semblano]

Hello there!
Armand found our blog "A Sombra" (which means "The Shadow" in Portuguese, by the way) and dropped me a few lines by e-mail, telling me about Moleskinerie. So here I am. :)

I handwrite almost everything, from essays to novels (you guessed it, I am also a writer on my spare time) to travel notes to short notes on everyday life... You name it. Since I am a painter and graphic artist - and that's the full time occupation! - I also sketch a lot.

I am fascinated by Moleskines and their users, but the truth is I never used one in my whole life. For one, they're truly very expensive and I can buy six Winsor & Newton sketch books for the price of one Moleskine the same size...
So I've been using W&N sketch books for some years now, just as you use Moleskines! The W&N paper (I draw and write on plane white paper with no lines or guides) may be as good for writing as Moleskine's, but when it comes to paint or watercolor, the way it felt tells me it's not as good (and some remarks on this site also tell me the same).

But I will try one for size, some day; probably will use one as a log for my coming honeymoon - IF I can find time to write, that is! :)

I'll be in touch.
Thanks for your invitation and drop by "our place" any time you feel like it!

My best to all Moleskiners!
RS

[giusec]

Ciao (hello) from Milan,Italy!
Armand found my personal blog via google, I believe, and wrote me an e-mail (Thanks, Armand!). It's so nice to see how many people share my passion (the Moleskine!). Just to let you know: Moleskine here is becoming more and more a fashion fact than an attitute (Modo & Modo, the producer, is based here)...It was so difficult to find it 'till few years ago...Now every single bookstore sell Moleskines. Travel Shops sell moleskines. News stands sell moleskines. Good or bad? Don't know. A bit disturbing, maybe. Well, I go now. Again, ciao to you all and thanks again, Armand, for showing me this nice community. giusec

[Witold Riedel]

hello from : ) nyc

[Lohr]

The small Moleskine is always my choice. It has a perfect travel size, and somehow seems more classic than the larger size...

[Morgaine]

A new comment on my blog. Just one line: join us at Moleskinerie. Enough to get my attention.

I've been using Moleskine sketch books for a while, not for sketching but mostly for poetry and notes. This year I got a diary as well. Smaller in size but it fits the obligatory purse better. Disadvantage is the fact pages are thinner, so no fountain pen for that one.

The idea to create a weblog for Moleskine addicts is a nice one and I hope it will be a huge success.

I'm sure I'll drop by from time to time and I added the RSS feed to my feedreader.

Morgaine, Antwerp, Belgium

[Justin]

My wife gave me a small "touch" notebook for my last birthday and I love it.

It makes me smile each time I open it.

Thanks for the great site...

[Patrick]

Hi Armand - this one's from Perth, Western Australia. I found your excellent site from an email you sent (obv. after finding mine googling for moleskine mentions). Beautiful stuff. If there's one thing I couldn't live without, other than my rickety old underwood, it's my Moleskine.

As Joan Didion wrote, "our notebooks give us away". And there's little finer to keep yourself in, or be given away by, than a healthy stack of increasingly battered little black books.

And that elastic just never breaks!

[Mike]

From Northern Virginia, USA here.

[cody]

alvin, tx (redneck, usa - unfortunately, 20 miles from the current super bowl festivities)

[boxx]

In nor california by way of Illinois. Use a ruled and sketch book. Both the smaller size.

[Chad]

Now in Park City, Ut. originally from Southern California.

[Takaatsu Yanagihara]

Hello from Tokyo.
As almost all who wrote down their massage here, Armand Franco found my website (Blog, is this a new word standing for website?) and invited me. I am a university professor who teaches Literature in Spanish. Me, myself, Japanese.
I think I found another Moleskine user. I saw it in a film. Namely, "10 Minutes Older, Cello". In its "Ver Nancy(Toward Nancy)" directed by Claire Denis ("10 Minutes..." is a Omnibus film), French phylosopher Jean Luc Nacy was talking in TGV compartment with his notebook put on a small desk by the window. And that notebook seemed to me a Moleskine. Check it up.

[Steve]

I'm from freezing Pennsylvania. I've just started journaling in a moleskine and I just can't stop. Heading off for Jamaica tomorrow. Looking forward to writing my travel thoughts and activities in my little black book. We are staying at a house on the beach hours from the resorts!!! I can't wait.

[Nagl]

Glasgow calling!

I'd never even heard of Moleskine notebooks until I followed a link from Chasing Daisy to Everyday Matters to here. The next day I popped into the local art shop and was chuffed to see a number of MS note & sketchbooks available. Since they were out of the sketch paper books, I got the fold-out Japanese pocket album. It's been 24 hours since and I've found myself sketching, writing and pasting things in at work, on the bus, wherever. Honestly, this wouldn't be happening if I hadn't seen this site. Kudos!

Jon, Glasgow, UK

[Celina]

Celina from Minnesota, USA here. I snatch up every little pocket notebook I can find, especially since the three local places that carried Moleskines all seem to have disappeared! (The Museum Company, Rand McNally and The Afternoon stores)

My favorites are the pocket Touch series in Geometric; what can I say, I'm a sucker for "Limited Edition" and just love how the fabric feels on my fingers. I have two of the six Van Gogh colors, also. I hope I'll be able to get one of each before those disappear as well!

What a relief it is to find others who enjoy these simple little notebooks as much as I do!

[Willow]

Hello, from the Philippines.

A friend gave this notebook as a gift. So clean and neat that I wouldn't even dare write anything at first for fear of messing it up. But now it has become my constant companion--documenting my moods and thoughts. It has now become a personal archive. My therapy begins at night when I recall the highlights of the day. The names of all the people that I hate. The people that I love. The thoughts that I entertain. The things that I plan. All the random things I write. In this precious little book.

[Jim]

Lovely to be here. I'm a newspaper columnist and have too many filled Moleskine notebooks to count stashed in my desk drawer, I, too, love the look and feel of these remarkable little journals, not to mention the legend they bring with them.

[Sylvia]

I just discovered Moleskines today... For a person with a "thing" for stationery, this is like meeting someone who could be "the one." Hopefully I'll be right this time...

[Michael X Brown]

Durham NC. Picked up my first Moleskine at the local Morgan Imports store. The small one fits perfectly into a shirt or coat or even pants pocket. Compulsively writeable little things.

[Norman]

Hello from Cebu, the Philippine islands. As a graphic designer, I need notebooks and I buy them like others buy new PDA models. I have small ones that tuck neatly in my back pocket and organizers that double as instant portfolios. These notebooks hold private thoughts born in public places; random scrawls and studied scribbles that capture the moment, record an experience, free associate an idea, or simply to note something down to remember later. Am glad to find a community that shares this little black notebook experience.

[WilyScribe]

I'm a studio screenplay analyst and screenwriter in Los Angeles. Years of searching for a good notebook--I tried many--were rewarded when I found the pocket-size lined Moleskine in 2001. It travels everywhere with me, as does a Pilot V5 pen. Took a larger ruled Moleskine, as a travel journal, for a 3 month trip to England. Never adapted to it as well, as it doesn't fit into my pocket. It's okay if what you set out to do that day is write. The pocket-size, however, is there for whenever a thought strikes that you may deem worth recording. Just great. This site suprised me when I saw it. Could it be true? Could there be others who felt felt such affection for a mere notebook? I guess so...and why not? Haven't writers been known to hoard particular models of typewriters to insure they would always have their tool of choice? Whatever works for you. If a little black book charms you, and gets carried with you, everywhere, that is a lot better than not carrying anything to write with at all. Who cares what you write in it? I did when I first started writing in mine, for some odd reason. Maybe it's because they seem so archival in comparison to other notebooks, which seem so disposable. Yes, archival, formal, and casual at the same time. Perfect. But, the point is to write, a lot, great stuff, good stuff, mediocre stuff, bad stuff--it's all good, because it's all writing. That's what a notebook is for, to write in. I no longer mind crossing something out in my Moleskine, at least I don't mind too much. Nor do I mind that the little books wear out a bit from my abuse--I've been rather tough on them. (Don't put them in your back pocket, it wears on the spine. A jacket pocket is ideal.) Anyway, it's nice to see something you appreciate, be appreciated by others. The more people who use Moleskines, the better. The company will stay in business and continue to make them. Suits me fine. I'd be happy to use them for the rest of my life, it'll make my note library a lot more uniform, not to mention neater. Hopefully the manufacturer won't see a need to "improve" our little Moleskine to improve popularity or something, seems they're becoming popular enough without changes. By the way, the color Moleskines don't appeal to me. Basic black works great, I wouldn't want another color--but color Moleskines are nice for people who would like them, and I'm sure there are plenty.

[Michael Wamsley]

I am from Akron, Ohio, in the United States. All I have to say is that "afficiando" sounds a lot better than "addict".
I just can't get over the slim styling and minimalist functionality that goes into these damn things. I am a huge fan of the pocket lined notebook, but I haven't had the opportunity to try the others out yet. It would seem that the large size would fit well into my purse, which I carry most everywhere.
Hmm... A straight guy that is a fan of stationary, fancy pens and carries a purse. I seem to get weirder every day.
Anyway, in response to a question posted earlier on whether it was good or bad for these notebooks to be proliferated, I would say it is good and here's why.
The people that buy and use Moleskines are writers, however amateur, semi-professional (like me) or professional (like Niel Gaiman) they may be. Being that we are writers, I find it appealing that there are thousands of us carrying around these secret portals into one's life and heart.
Perhaps the contents of one of these little books will become the basis for a great work of literature. Perhaps the scribbled notes, poetry and drawings will become something that makes literacy cool again. If any of us can produce something that gets people to shut off their TV's or get up a little early or stay up too late at night to actually read something, then I would say it is definitely a good thing.
Of course, basic cable has most of us in thrall, but I still keep up hope in spite of the odds.

M