Log Book

Huan ying. Bienvenidos. Irashaimasu. Welkom. Merhaba. Maligayang pagdating. Bienvenue. Bruchim habayim. Willkommen. Bem-vindo. Hwangyong-hamnida. Benvenuti!

Where is everybody from? The Moleskinerie Log Book is now open. Please sign in.

Comments

[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

[Russ Mead]

Dear Blogers,

I am new to moleskins, but have a long affair with notebooks. It started over 15 years ago with a pigskin daytimmer. My style is to just use the pages as blank notebook pages and ignore all the micromanage my life stuff they print on the pages. The book never left my side. I used that thing for over a decade then left it at a B and B on the night of the turning of the millennium. It must have been a significant date, because I never got it back.

Then came a very cool replacement. Make by Hippo, really a guy, a knife and a hand sticher. I bought a brand new daytimmer and told the Hippo dude to pull out the 5 ring binder and put it into his hand stitched binder. He used cheep 3 ring binders. Now this is great and I used it for 4 years. (I still have it at my desk side)

But then my life changed. I saw the Moleskin blank pages and bought it before moving to work on an animal sanctuary. I could slip this little book in my jean pocket and be ready to write down anything. A telephone number, a medicine for an animal, an idea.

Along the way I got distracted by a fancy palm. It is about the size of the moleskine (No coincidence I suppose) but just seems too fragile and hard to jot. I did love the numbers at my fingertip and calendar though.

I have one other journal device. I wrote a book and outlined the book notes on a larger journal. But I needed to have it with me before I would work on the book. Now I am starting my second book and am thinking about just using the Moleskine. It will never leave me. Maybe book stuff back to front, regular notes front to back.

This seems to be a pen group. I also danced with the devil concerning pens. I had a custom ground nib on a big fat Mont Blanc. But it was never as good as an old Shaffer fountain pen that had the stainless nib ground flat. But I can’t use this pen or any fountain pen at the sanctuary. Fountain pens can’t be shoved into your front pocket next to your Swiss army knife and emergency whistle. (To call for help if some animals get into a fight.) So now I don’t use a designer pen. As long as it is fat and has a good heft to it I like it. I seem drawn to metal pens with company names on them. So, I went from custom leather binder that I had over 200 bucks into and a 600 dollar pen to a 10 buck Moleskine and free pens. Go figure.

[Joy]

Must. Have. Moleskine. [Can this be the end of my love affair with Clairefontaine?]

But I'm living in Costa Rica. Can anyone recommend a US or UK retailer who's dependable and ships to Central America? You can email me off list.
-Joy

[Il Postino]

You got email!:)

[needsomecoffee]

hi! i'm not sure if there are moleskines in singapore ... i haven't been able to find them! anyway, i just wanted to say hello with a poem i wrote about my obsession ... it's titled "stationery freak".

On a brand new morning
I pencil in my dates
Brush away the sleepiness
File my dreams away

Erase all traces of useless regret
Tie good intentions up in string
Staple reminders in my brain
Throw procrastination in the bin

If I have time after dusk
I pick up my marker pack
Circle the day’s triumphs in red
Bracket failures in black

Punch some holes in my arrogance
To reinforce my humility
Find some clips to hold together
My flailing integrity

Rule out bad thoughts that I’ve harboured
Print memories to keep
In the many folders of my mind
Before I go to sleep

Then I ask for forgiveness,
For my slate to be wiped clean
Thankful for the chance to have
Another new day to begin

[Lise]

Greetings from Melbourne, Australia
I think I've found a virtual home here. Am I not the only strange one who longingly looks at my moleskines as if they are a special friend? No I'm not from a psych ward but with the passion I have for these books, you'd think so. I can't explain it.
OK, I've always been passionate about stationery and how I found these was a need for a SUCCESS journal as I'm learning to be a life coach. I wanted something SPECIAL & DIFFERENT. I searched high and low, not sure of what I was looking for, but it took me time till I found those darling books.
My favourite, as homage to stationery I found in Europe (esp France & Italy) was the squared large notebook. I have 3 and whilst I'm using one for the Success Journal, the other two stare at me, unopened in my bookcase, tempting and teasing me to use them. But as is the case with me, something so special, I don't want to use them, but enjoy looking at them. You'd think this girl was in love eh?
I love the paper as I find with many notebooks they don't do fineliners, gel pens or metallic pens well, they bleed through to the other side and these don't. The paper is thick and hardy. I like that. It will last forever.
And I like to be in a place with kindred spirits.
I wonder why we are so passionate about Moleskines. I fell in love with the history, the "specialness", the look, the feel, the smell, the whole aesthetic. I don't think I'm alone in this, hallelujah!
Blessings

[Joy]

My Moleskines arrived in Costa Rica yesterday--happily they made it from New Jersey unscathed and unstolen [the Customs agents here are frequent thieves.]

I've been admiring them, and trying to decide which [ruled or graph] I should use first.

-Joy

[Annie]

Hello from around the Bay Area, California!

I just got my first Moleskine today, a sketchbook. I was going to get a ruled one as well, but they ran out already! ('They' being Borders). I have my poetry professor to thank for introducing me to these nifty notebooks.

[Charlie]

I'm in Cherokee County, Georgia, USA - just NW of Atlanta. I discovered the Moleskine about 3 months ago, now. I'm using the pocket size, quad ruled version.

I'm a pastor, and I use mine for journaling, sermon notes, and just about any other "creative" stuff I need. Good to be among friends...

[Christian]

Hello from Germany - part of the "old" Europe ;-)

beneath all those PDAs and other "geek-toys" it's very nice to get back to the roots. I'm an author an what could I say? A computer is a good thing, it makes writing and editing so easy - but it does not "feel right". There is no better thing than to grab your fountain pen and your Moleskine notebook ... and just write. Don't think ... just write on and on...

C.

[Alex Coxe]

My name is Alex, I live near Atlanta, Georgia and own 1 large sketch Moleskine and 1 large squared Moleskine. My sister loved the unique ideas put into the M and liked my sketch one so she decided to get one for herself. She couldn't find a large so ended up with a pocket. I was amazed by the size when I first saw it. I even tested it by putting it in and out of my pocket several times. LIKE A CHARM!

[Eric Stephens]

Just a quick hello. Bought a large ruled Moleskine for my software engineering/architecture notebook for work. Absolutely love its style. Now the obsession has begin: I bought a pocket one for keeping notes and personal journaling. The medium is not supposed to matter, but I find myself compelled to fill the little notebook with whatever thoughts enter my head.

[roxanne reynolds]

roxanne here, in hot & humid houston,texas. i've bought i don't know how many journals, most of which remain beautifully blank. but now i've got this delicious little book that will fit in a jeans pocket or any purse, so there's no excuse for not having it with me at ALL times. one question, though - any suggestions for how to attach a pen/pencil so i'm never at a loss for a writing implement?

[rebekah]

Wow! Omigod!Is this my real home?

After being constantly ridiculed for my obsession with stationery, my long term partner decided to round up all the pens and notebooks and journals i had accumulated over the years. (Being a hoarder I never throw stuff away and to me, any medium that serves to catch my imagination on paper, is sacred. )

Half an hour later he emerged from the bedrooms, clutching at reams of paper largely unspoilt.

"What can you possibly need all these notebooks for?!"

he exclaimed. The puzzled look and half smile that lingered on his face showed his amusement confusion and disbelief.

He just didn't get it, still doesn't. He's a minimalist guy. Only buys what he needs. One at a time. Never hoards things. Throws them out when he's done. Has no emotional attatchment to 'things', instead saving all his affection for 'real people'.

As a crazy, eccentric, flighty, creative, extreme, expressive, intellectual and completely ditsy female...I crave the fantastical outlet for my racing mind that is found in writing things down.

I can't leave the house without double checking that I have the pens (lots of, y'know in case the first one run out, the second one breaks and i lose the third one in a freak accident involving a goose and a fish paste sandwich - dont ask) and of course a notebook/pad/journal. Pages and pages of blank unspoilt paper that stretch out before me. Daring me to let my innermost thoughts, the blood and guts of my psyche, explode all over them (the post mortem coming later).

Thats how i go out into that big bad world, armed not with weapons but with the tools of a scribe.

But it's always been a bit of an obsession of mine - call it a quest - to find the Holy Grail of notebooks. One that is large enough to allow me to feel free to let my mind roam and yet small enough to fit in my bag without bending the corners too much and splitting the cover. It needed to be thick so there would be no danger of running out of space and sturdy enough to endure being dragged about in my shoulder bag.

But, paradoxically i wanted to be able to fold the pages back and have the book mold itself to the shape of my leg as i lean on my knee to jot down some thoughts. But (and i know i sound hard to please) it should also lay flat when i write at the table.

I tried them all. Spiral bound, at the top or side: yeah they can lay flat, but the pages fall out, the wire loses shape, the cover gets torn.

Exercise books: well they fold over easy and are prretty malleable but they dont retain their shape and their feeble covers can't protect my ideas and observations as well as i'd like.

God I even tried a filofax. One with lots of blank paper in it, a pen holder and a 5 year diary thingummy. But i felt like an imposter. Like i was trying to file away the creative monster in my head, make him fit nicely into little categories, and at all times look presentable to the outside world. (Plus i looked like some kind of superscillious, recently appointed middle management deputy...oh and it clashed with my wallet).

So naturally the collection grew as every time i passed a stationers i "just popped in for a wee look" and came out with another potential ideal journal-come-jotter.

Hence the stationery amnesty in my home where the boyfriend rounded up the offending articles and brought to my attention just how big an obsession i have.

Well i did have. Until recently. In fact three weeks ago to be exact. Yep thats when i found it. The holy grail. The notebook i had been searching for since i was six years old and spending all my pocket money in Office World and Woolworths. The moleskine.

Oh god oh my god. It fitted all the above criteria and it felt so right. Genuine, trustworthy, mature, simple, elegant, understated, kooky, classic...i could go on forever. Which i almost have haven't i.

I wont say much more only i want to thank the creator of this site for making me feel like part of a secret community. A group of people who move accross the plains of the earth documenting anything, everything..anytime anyplace. We may not know each other but the mere sight of a fellow moleskiner lets us know we are not alone.

Hope i haven't bored you guys i just needed to get that out in the open. Would really love to hear from anyone who 'gets' the stationery thing. Just drop us a line guys and thanks for reading.

Who knows i might see you around sometime...

[Stephen]

Yup, I keep a large stash of notebooks on hand just in case the paper making industry comes to a grinding halt.

I found my first Moleskine in a little artist's coastal town called Mendocino California. I started writing in it that night. Years later, I'm still writing. (Many notebooks later).

High price or not, This is the highest quality notebook I have ever found. I hope they never change.

Here's to my brothers and sisters in writing, Steve

[David Paull]

Greetings from Portland, Oregon. I'm a long-time Moleskine user and really like your blog. I use a large lined journal as a phone log and for meeting notes. It's the one I have with me all day at work. I also use a small lined journal for brain-dumping, the contents of which are as random as it gets.

[Eric Lowry]

Yo! from Philadelphia, PA. I just discovered Moleskines on a trip to NY. I use them for daily journal entries so my family can look back at my life in 50 years and know what I was doing. I'd love to know what my great-grandparents were doing 50 years ago.

[Madge]

Hi there, lovely site you have here. I'll definitely be back (thanks for the post too!)

[Chris]

Greetings to the Moleskinerie Community! I recently discovered the Moleskine and I cannot even begin to describe how thrilled I was to find it!

I had been searching for such a notebook for a long time and nothing ever worked out quite right until I found the Moleskine. I now use a large ruled Moleskine as an "everything" Book. Notes, scribbles, doodles, thoughts, journal entries -- a little bit of everything goes into my Moleskine.

I find though, as a web designer/programmer by trade, that the Moleskine is a bit to small to use in my professional work. So, for that, I use the Notabilia ruled notebooks from Levenger. Those work quite nicely. I wish Modo & Modo would make a Moleskine in that size -- about 7" x 9". That would be ideal!

I must say that I find the postings here on Moleskinerie to be quite facinating. I especially like seeing and reading about how other people use their Moleskines.

Thanks, Armand, for a wonderful site!

[Jasmin]

Hello from Germany!

I´m really addicted to my moleskine!
I think it´s one of the most useful and at the same time one of the most beautiful littel thing which has ever been invited.
By the way, I think the only right way to write in a moleskine is to use a pencil.
There´s nothing better then write down an idea which just came in your mind imedially in your moleskin.
I hope my moleskin will at least live as long as I. And if somebody is interested to read it, that would be fine; but if not I won´t care because it was just so much fun to write in it!

[ailene]

I'm from Manila, Philippines. There's a small underground group of us who are absolutely devoted to Moleskines (and who keep the knowledge of such well-made, high quality notebooks a well-kept secret). In our desperation, we actually have those beloved notebooks shipped (or smuggled in) through not-as-beloved relatives and friends from various countries.

I definitely vote for small ones. They're very handy, I think, to keep a roadmap, you might say, of my memories.

I average four to five Moleskines annually.

[Web Gecko]

I love this site!

I am another person addicted to the Moleskine notebooks. Another vice is fountain pens. Theer is something about the two together that makes you stand still, observe, and write. At least that's what happens for me.

I use one small pocket notebook, fondly called "my brain." Everything from my doctor's fax number to my BMI are kept in it. I have another I take fly fishing, so I can record hatches, water and weather conditions, and track it year by year. And of course, I have a paper journal and several sketchbooks. The sketchbooks were treaded with a special ground and I draw on them with silverpoint.

Well, I just wanted to thank you for this very appealing site!

Regards

[Ancil]

I thought of something just now at the store. There was a box for donating supplies to overseas troops. I'm going back and dropping in some moleskines.

Don't worry about your politics. You all know what the little books mean to us. Think what they would mean to someone far from home. A place to record history or express private thoughts.

Maybe we can start something worth more than notes on good cigars, or favorite dinning places, or best latte' shops. I have given moleskines to co-workers and acquaintences, I believe we can give some to those people "standing on the wall."

[heide]

Hello from Luanda, Angola, in southern Africa.

I don't know how I happened upon my first moleskine, but now I have about 9, including one Touch notebook, one Van Gogh address book (blue), one travel info notebook and several pocket ruled notebooks.

My favorite companion, though, is my pocket daily diary. I'm just about to buy the 2005 diary, which will be my third year of recording miscellania in my diary. I love the page per day. I love the tiny phases of the moon and the notations about public holidays around the world. I love the fatness of the little notebook, and I love the elastic that keeps it all together. I used to use a filofax but I'll never go back to that and I have no interest in a Palm.

I can't imagine being without my little black notebook.

[Meaghan]

Greetings from Portland, OR! I was given a Moleskine small sketchbook about 4 years ago by an uncle who is an architect. At the time I looked at it and thought it was pretty nice but later discovered it was only $11 and instead thought, "hmm. the man has gobs of money and all I get is this little black book." Little did I know how lucky I truly was to discover this gem and where it might lead. 4 years later I'd guess and say I have at least 20. I have the sketchbooks, japanese albums, lined & plain, the volant series (which I just adore!) and am excited about picking up the new music and storybook journals this weekend (I dont write music or design stories but my obsession continues on!). I parallel my adoration/ obsession to the movie "Conspiracy Theory" with Mel Gibson and his obsession with The Catcher in the Rye. Whenever I walk into a store that sells them, I just have to buy one. Most are still in their little wrappers but I have about 3 that have about 10 used pages in each.

The moleskine to me represents all that I know lies deep inside myself. It is a blank slate just waiting to be filled with a novel or a fabulous work of art. Sometimes I manage to summon up the courage to put a pen to the paper, yet always I'm let down with my efforts. Perhaps it's the idea that the moleskine deserves better. It is so simple and classic... perfect... just like I want to be. (For those who may share this fear I highly recommend the Volant series. Somehow it doesnt seem as big a step to use one of those as they are thinner and not quite as threatening!)

I just love looking at the pages on this site to see how other people use their precious little black books. It inspires me to use it in new ways and manages to ease my fear. Im curious to see how people will use the new music and storyboard books in creative ways.

Its so comforting to know I'm not alone in my obsession and I just adore all the beautiful images and stories others have to share.

Many thanks!

[christian garaud]

greatings from a lebanese in casablanca, morocco.
2 month ago a friend of mine brought me a moleskine from paris.
at that time I didn't know about it, but since then the moleskine mania caught me.

what a great notebook and diary.

how did I live without it?

[Penny]

Hello Armand and Mr Monkey!

I actually do not remember how I found Moleskinerie. I've been an almost daily visitor though. I wrote about your site here (in addition to the link you currently have up).. [http://flyfisher.typepad.com/blogability/2004/11/preplanning_thi.html#more ].

I babble about this site at work, then try to explain the concept as well as the product. They look at me like I joined a cult or something equally as unsavory. They only get it when I give them a moleskine to stop the funny and puzzled looks. (Can a 3 dimensional object have evangelists like software and platforms?)

Personally, I enjoy the dichotomy of reading, online, about a subculture that cherishes what is slow and graceful off-line. Love this site.

Warm regards
P
(PS, tell Monkey I said "abend schatz sie")

[Jim]

I just found this blog. I have been using M for three years now and love them. I have recently decided to abandon my PDA for a weekly planner. I like the feel of a real calendar, paper and notebook in my hand. Thanks for creating the site and keeping it going. Blessings, Jim

[Michael Nobbs]

Better late than never...Greetings from the west coast of Wales.

[Angelina]

My father wrote in Moleskines - the first I have dating back to WW1. Where I am from, the name is pronounced "moll-eh-skeen-eh" and "Moleskinerie" is a French styled plural and much later (commercial) add on.

I don't know why there appears to be such reference for Chatwin ~ he merely followed others in their ritualistic uses for the notebook. This amuses me as I have old notebooks that cite the suggestions attributed to Chatwin on this site in books that bear the date 1916... I also note that the inside covers were colourful and intricate and, in comparison, I find today's version quite boring. Suffice to say, I use moleskines (only the pocket notebooks) and it's with the knowledge of times past I use as inspiration to make my little editions interesting.

[Angelina]

I truly enjoy the site, by the way.

Mile grazie ;)

[Barnett Dawson]

Outstanding site. Moleskines became part of my life about four years ago. Now I have a dozen or so waiting to give to friends. I use the address books -- the smaller one for my car and the larger one for my desk -- and the daily journal. Rather than TO DO lists I keep HAVE DONE lists as part of the journal process. Mostly I like the process of writing things down with fountain pen (wish the paper in the notebooks was a bit less prone to feather and bleed-through, but it's just hefty enough to where such problems aren't an impediment). I once read a William Faulkner anecdote in which he said he wrote in longhand because a typewriter made him "get going too fast." I can only imagine how much he would have loathed computers.

[machappy]

So great to know that there are others out there like me...I collect them and when
I go back to the States on trips, I buy a bunch to take back with me. It's amazing
how popular they are. I've met so many random people who love them too.

[nadine]

i just discovered moleskines about a year ago and now i can't get enough. my only problem is that occasionally i think that whatever i have to write isn't worthy of the moleskine. i've also acquired the datebook along the way, and it is my constant companion, and definitely garners me a lot of complements along the way.

[phia]

I'd love to add something to a Moleskine, but can't seem to access Joy's e-mail. if she could mail me that would be ace! I'm Phia (sophia) and I'm living in the middle of england at the moment, could give a whole new british perspective on the thing? I'm beginning a journal project of my own at new year, everybody gets a journal for xmas and fills it over the course of the year and then gives them away as christmas presents come 2005, the more random the stranger the better, but having a purpose to writing in the book should keep people dedicated.

[ueki]

This info is a bit dated, but Moleskine notebook appears in movie National Treasure.

[milesh]

Amazing how such a mundane object and a devoted site have effected so much personal thought and emotion; it's almost embarassing to admit. Gusto mong Moleskine.

[sean hogan]

new user here; always been the guy who refused out of basic principle and pragmatism to use any special notebooks of any kind and up until now have used simple mead topspiral bound things; but now i have regular lined and pocket lined sized moleskines, and i think theyre fantastic. theyre only about twice as much as my old notebooks and are so much more useful and inspiring. my next step is to trash my palm pilot in favor of the datebook. cheers.

[caroline]

Beautiful, beautiful! Thank you.

(Washington, DC)

[anna]

I just recently purchased my first Moleskine and was so charmed by it I bought it it's own special pen. So full of possibilities - but like many folks here, I want to feed it things that are worthy of it, so pen to paper is sometimes difficult. I found your site through the good graces of raven72d over at Diaryland. Thanks for being here.

[Les]

What a great site. I'm pretty sure I just stumbled across my first Moleskine in a Barnes and Noble. There was an insert that talked about Hemingway using them, and a travel writer (Chatwin?) who was obsessive about numbering the pages. I'd resisted getting a "special" notebook. Always kept the .25 spirals, etc. But this was different. I finally bought a pocket size ruled Moleskine and worried at it's cost. Wrote from one edge to the other in tight little handwriting to make it last. I guess I have because my first entry was 9/12/02 and still have a few pages to go. That Christmas my daughter gave me a bigger size. It's funny to run across this website now, because I was just in a book store tonight, debating whether I should trade in the larger size for another pocket size. I think I'm going to try the larger size, though, since I have never, except for my last trip when I took a sports coat, carried my notebook in anything but my book backpack. It's safer there. I don't want to be moving it around and risk losing it. I write in my moleskine during pauses in travelling for the most part, then type my entries into my computer when I get home. I've written in it on the top of Sentinel Dome in Yosemite and on the beach in Cozumel, and twice while sitting on the edge of the Grand Canyon. So I'm going to try the larger sized one out since it lives in my backpack anyway, but I share with others the affinity for the little pocket size. I've found the perfect pen for writing in the Moleskine is the Zebra F-301, which also lives in the backpack. Anything to keep me writing.

[George Gilliam]

I recently discovered the Moleskine Notebooks about 5 months ago and that magical motivation to write that fellow 'skineries speak of got a hold of me.
I use the large ruled as a daily Jounal, I began using the large desk dairy at the begining of 05. The recent slim and flimsy moleskines have become very valuble assests to my GTD set up as I use them to record Projects and next actions.
And BTW - a moleskine makes a cameo appearance several times in a recent movie now on DVD - RUNDOWN staring The Rock - check it out ( also his use of the pocket size moleskine in the movie is not a bad idea.)
The books have really contributed to my productivity. I find the simplicity, enhances the functionality, thus creating a tool that is natural and enjoyable to use.

George - Marland

[Arne - Norway]

Realized something changed, nor does word just become written in any kind of note book to be forgotten, seems for some reason lately my words are also read, by me. Never did happen in those ugly yellow cheap stampled that only got size right of the past. Never much of a beliver in magic, but kind of feel like it, good magic, even if my new note books are black...

[fixedgear]

Fan mail for the great web site. PDA? What is that? Pen and paper, nice.

[ernie]

Hello M fans. Ernie from Roselle, Il. For all those who draw in there M's Thank You for sharing them with us. You are all truly gifted. I have my first M. I keep it with me all the time. I write down everything that effects me. Everything.I may not be the greatest writer, but this little book is about me. Being part of this community (or is it a cult..is verycool.

[ayhan]

Hi from Istanbul/Turkiye. I ve been using moleskine notebook for two years and I can say that its a part of mine. I never go anywhere without it.

[Scully]

Hello from Sacramento, California!!

I'm so glad you're all here! =) I needed a place to jot down book titles (and other miscellany) - I read so many authors with recurring characters, I can't seem to keep track of which titles I've read and which I haven't... I'm thinking that's a sign of age. (sigh) I found a little book at Borders that was specifically for that purpose, and elected not to get it that night. Well, I went to a different store and, of course, couldn't find it. I was quite disappointed and searched for something like it. I kept wandering back to the Moleskines and finally picked up the small ruled...

I thought I was alone with this odd attraction to this little book! I couldn't wait to tear the plastic off it!! As soon as I could I transferred my "books to read" and "books I've read" notes from the now obsolete spiral notebook that I was carrying.

I work in the IT field and usually have a couple of notebooks around. Best Practices, something that broke and I had to research for a few days (ALWAYS note that stuff, even if it's seared into your memory after fighting with it), meeting notes, etc... Now I'm finding that I want to replace ALL of those with Moleskines!!

Not just for work - and not just for books - I now have someplace to collect those weird, random thoughts - that image staring at me from a newspaper or magazine... you know - the image you can't take your eyes off of.

As always - the beauty is in the simplicity... I was at the web site earlier and saw pricing for 4 or more, and 10 or more... And this appeals to me. =)

[Sujatin]

Ah, now I have found some - happy again :-)

[IL Postino]

A reader writes:

"Greetings from snowy Vienna. As always, I've been keeping an almost daily eye on your wonderful Moleskine website. But in these last days, or weeks, it seems like the large majority of postings there have only been about "me and my moleskine." Why people like them, have them, use them, etcetera. I know that is in many ways what the site is about, but I must say I was more interested and intrigued, on a daily basis, when you introduced so many different subjects/links like calligraphy, old maps, origami, etcetera. Recently the site seems to generally concentrate on only this one subject. For those of us less interested in why people choose to use the Moleskine, it's less stimulating.

Just a thought."

[Pete]

I just came across this site today while searching on google for the official Moleskine site.

I'm glad I came across it! It's nice to know that so many others share the same enthusiasm for these wonderful notebooks.

I've been using one for the last two years or so. I have four in total. I never leave home without at least one of them.

I plan on contributing something to this site in the near future, but for now I just wanted to say hello.

[Lou]

Hello from Florida!

I use my moleskine for almost everything. I write in it, obviously, for both school and other things. I also have been doing basic layouts for webpages in it.

Nice to know so many people use 'skines. They are great.

[Bill]

Hello from Brighton, UK.

I came across Moleskines while out shopping in October 2004. I saw the display, picked one up and thought what a nice notebook - small enough for the pocket, it felt nice and was the right size to hold in one hand yet big enough to write a decent amount on one page.

Then I looked at the price and thought it was a little over the top for a note book and left the shop. A little later I popped into a (different) stationary shop and found another Moleskine display - this time the price was slightly cheaper and I purchased a small lined note book.

It's taken me a little time to find the best way of using it along side my PDA and I've tended to use it more for creative ideas and thoughts as well as a journal. Pen wise I use a Pilot P-500.

I only discovered this site recently and love it. In fact I've spent far too much time reading the older (and useful) postings :)

Thanks Armand and keep up the good work.

[Bruce]

I'm just stumbling through these blogs learning about a lot of things by reading postings. I live in Milwaukee, have three adult children and 5 grandchildren with one more expected very soon. Interesting reading and discovery.

[Cheap Girl Draws]

Hi - I found you through Michael Nobbs. I'm an artist and tech junkie in San Francisco, California. Great site! I am always writing/drawing hoping that something amazing will happen.

[Lucky]

Hello there from Houston, Texas!

I found this community a while back but just now started gathering the courage to start posting.

It's just more fun to write in my M... :-)

[rowland]

Just re-read my entry from last August: I'm just filling up the last pages of Number 2. Am about to return to Italy for a while so bought a larger version to do some sketching: I can't imagine not having my little notebook to hand: I have also given 'Moleskines' (how is it pronounced?!) to several friends. In fact, I've become quite evangelical about them and their therapeutic value: gave one to my therapist!!

It's almost sad that we can generate so much enthusiasm for a little book: but what the hell!?

[gil tabiliran]

I am now itching to get hold of the Small m with
BIG following ..to jot down everything before
evrything gets foggy in my brain..

[Diong]

Just saw this site via Drawn! Pinoy from Indianapolis :-)

[Alexandra]

I bought my first Moleskine (plain, pocket-size) last weekend during a visit to the touristy Distillery District of Toronto. I am crazy about stationary and have hoards of little diaries and journals lying around but I love none as much as this little black book... I now take it everywhere with me. I started writing journals when I was 8 years old (I still have that very first little notebook) and have written intermittently since then. Can't wait to fill my first moleskine...

[Leo the 3rd]

Hello from Atlanta, GA. I've been using a Moleskine for about 2 weeks now. I'm an avid notetaker and mom always said I should keep a journal. Now at almost 38 I'm back into having a journal. My first Moleskine is a squared, pocket-size. Great for noting ideas and thoughts.

[kisane]

Oh my....I wish I could just hug the guys that created this notebook! Thank you for the Moleskine...it is the perfect notebook for just about everything!

I got mine about a month ago through an online website here in Singapore. It came wrapped in plastic and covered in white tissue. Oh, the exquisite pleasure in unwrapping it and tearing off the plastic. I use my small blank notebook for everything...thoughts, diary of sorts, noting a CD to buy, a list jotter...it's now a part of my handbag along with my keys, purse, lipstick and mobile phone.

One wish...I wish there were some color to the Moleskine. I love black. Heck...half my wardrobe is black! But just that spot of color would be nice. Like the end papers and bookmark could be in the color of the wrapper.

Another wish - may the Moleskine and its makers live long and prosper!

[Anika]

I love notebooks and have been keeping journals for years. I am fascinated by the "cult" of Moleskine. I think I'll buy one for myself for my birthday...in 4 days. I can't wait!

[meredith]

new to moleskines. enjoying the site very much.

[_41]

From Portugal, a great fan of the Moleskines!

[Vickie]

I've been visiting here for probably about a week now. I finally decided that I should probably leave a comment.

I'm in Illinois -- not too far from St. Louis, MO.

My Moleskine and I have travelled from here to Tennessee, to New Orleans, to Wisconsin, and to Mexico. My Moleskine and I plan to have many more trips. It wants to see Canada this summer.

I currently have a Daily Dated Moleskine for 2005 and I love it. I plan on purchasing one for 2006. I also plan on purchasing a couple of lined or graphed, or blank Moleskines in the near future just to have around for extra writing space. I just can't make up my mind right now which kind to get.

I enjoy your site. I have added it to Bloglines so I can keep tabs with what is happening here.

[Antonio Moretti]

Da italia-

I have bought my first moleskine 1 year ago in milano and I have completed: 6 pocket sketchbook, 9 pocket lined notebook, 5 pocket graph paper. I love these.

Ho comprato mio primo moleskine un'anno fa in milano e ho completato 6 pocket per schizzi, 9 pocket a righe e 5 pocket a quadretti. Amo questi tacuini.

[Nikki Cabrera]

I've been visiting this site for a while now and I finally decided to leave a message. I live in Long Island, New York and I got my first Moleskine when I was 17 from my best friend. No other journal has been able to keep my attention for longer than a month. My Moleskine, however, goes everywhere with me.

[GrannyKass]

Found this site just 3 days ago after looking for Noodler's Ink suppliers. Have been fascinated by all the comments, quotes, drawings and advise.

I got my first Moleskine squared Pocket book in 2001. Took me till June 2002 to put pen to it. Then I recorded the events of a cross country trip from Illiois to Californis by way of S. Dakota, Wyoming, Utah, Nevada and finally California. We eventurally made it to Yosemite. With the return trip through Nevada, Utah, Colorado (van broke down in Estes Park) Nebraska, Iowas and finally home to Illinois.

My moleskine helps me to remember every day of that trip; mileage, gas prices, food costs, camping fees, motel fees and a number of wonderful little stories. I now have a book shelf full of Moleskines. Every size, discription and varied uses.

I am thankful to find that I am not the only person to be so intently obsessed with these blank books.

Cheer! Let's here it for the Modo Modo group for bringing this product back to life. (even if Hemingway and van Gough didn't use them. I do - You do - others do. Who cares how the hook us, we are hooked none the less.

Happy Scribbler's,
Granny

[allen waters]

like article in NYT today. Would like to hear from someone about how to start a journal.. I live near Atlanta, Ga. thank you

[Matthias]

Just a brief "Hi-ho!" from Vienna, Austria!

Keep up the good work @ moleskinerie - I really enjoy reading your site :)

[Mike Jack]

I collect pens and notebooks. I keep a journal that I write in mostly when I'm depressed. It's a good way to empty out my brain before it gets backed up. I enjoy the view of the world I get from Moleskinerie's contributors.

[Virginianna]

Chattanooga TN, here. Love my minimoleskin. Take it to Rembrandt's on Sunday mornings and fill pages with things to chase down from the NYT. It becomes my Sunday morning brain. When you're in Chattanooga don't miss the fence made of old bicycles on Tremont St. It's mine. Virginianna

[Tia Likely]

Atlanta, GA. Got my first Moleskine in late 1999/early 2000 and have been in love every since. Started off with the pocket sized then moved to the large sized. I currently have a couple of plain sheet moleskines in rotation as well as a couple of Volants. I use mine for work, another for a journal and my Volants for my photography & genealogy work.

[Joe Hill]

I have written in Mead Composition Books for the past 30 years. I was introduced to Moleskine notebooks and journals in 2000 here at Lubbock, TX. I enjoy writing in my journal with a fountain pen the best. I especially appreciate the pocket for keeping photos in.

The article the the New York Times Magazine reminded me that I try to have something worthwhile to scribble in my Moleskine.

[S Mott]

Bonjour! J'habite a Bourdeilles et j'aime bien le Moleskine. C'est incroyable pour ecrire et dessiner. Merci!

[Dave Campbell]

I like to use a lined pocket moleskine. I use one at a time and I use it for a diary/planner.

[Fredrik Nordstrom]

Hello from Karlstad, Sweden! I'm a fountain pen collector and I just love the feeling of free-flowing ink on the moleskine paper, it makes my pens perform at their very best! At the moment I have two moleskine notebooks (two small ones, one lined and one ruled) and my everyday journal is an A5 Moleskine Daily Journal. Just got to love these notebooks! Cheers!

[Memorykeeper]

Chicago, IL

A great site. I was directed here via July 2005 : Lifehacker and glad that I did. A site to be linked.

I just might go out and get me a 'moleskin' now!

~ Memorykeeper

[Seren]

Hi! I'm in Wales, UK. I bought my first moleskine last week in London and am using it for notes for my novel, to keep them all in one place. I adore it; I can see I am going to be addicted. I've had to promise to buy one for my daughter to take with her on a seal watching expedition she's off to soon, in the Scilly Isles.

[Malinda]

Hi, I'm in the heartland of America, Kansas City, Missouri! I just started in my second M Sketchbook, drawing, painting and writing and writing...

I'm playing with the idea of making a Hedgehog to fill with watercolor paper, but I just can't make myself leave behind that black cover and feel of the pages. I draw things for Everyday Matters and Illustration Fridays and myself and post them to my blog and my Flickr page at http://www.flickr.com/photos/mweltephoto/ I buy them at my local Utrecht Art store but I understand BnN has them also. I first saw them 4-5 years ago at Restoration Hardware on the Plaza and felt the tickling of interest begin...it took some time for me to get up the nerve to buy one. When I did, I had no problem jumping right in to fill it with wonders of my life!

[Michael]

Hi Folks, down here in Miami. I collect journals and notebooks and legal pads and use them daily. I have accumulated Moleskine journals of all types and sizes (some obsession here I will admit) and have a few going at all times with various topics and agendas. I have found some closeouts (Restoration Hardware recently) here and there and have given some away to clients; my kids are now using them. I collect Fountain pens and Rollerball pens, primarily modern manufacturers versions (Aurora, Krone, Delta, Pelikan, Parker, etc.) as opposed to vintage; my favorites are limited editions of these, many are italian made. I think Moleskine are great books, the new reporter books are great as there is no left side binding to deal with which can get in the way particularly the small books, also the detachable pages and pockets are great so that these books can go anywhere. The new Cahier journals in the kraft covers are sturdy and solid notebooks. Yes, many fountain pen inks don't work that well on the paper; the sketch book paper takes many inks well though. Noodler's black waterproof ink works well, some of the Swisher inks are okay and then many of us have found inks that don't feather either; since I use a variety of pens and inks it's not a problem. My favorite legal pads are of course Rhodia which are fairly pricey but worth it especially if you have people traveling back and forth to France that you know, as the pads in the U.S. that are $9 plus shipping are $4 or less for the same one in France and of course, Clairefontaine. I understand Moleskine is a bit more grassroots possibly than but I thought it might be worthy of mention anyway.

[Kal Zakath]

Hello, I am a fellow Illinois inhabitant. I live a semi - important existence in a small suburb of Chicago where I spend most of my time planning peaceful revolutions in small notebooks. Great job on the site, permanent addition to my bookmarks and great addition to my daily reading.

[eveningfaces]

Hello from Japan - just came across this site today, and I must say it's awesome! I have several Moleskines right now, never can resist buying a new one without finishing the old ones.... and I love how they have the little note in the beginning saying "reward $$$" :)

[Anne]

First best, i like to say the word Moleskine.
Second, I like how they feel.
Third, I like to buy new ones and all the potential they have.
I'm from Illinois (Chicago) and I like the small ones because they are easier to tote about. I like to buy them for my friend, Mr. Saru San who draws funny pictures and comix in them.

[ron salzberg]

Count me in as a member of the Moleskine cult. This little guy (or gal) is a perfect companion for a writer. Not too big, not to small (Am I stealing this line from Goldilocks?), but just right or just write. When I first spotted it at Barnes & Noble I thought it was a lot of money for a little notebook but after circling the diary area for a few days, I was won over. I love the idea that the notebook has a history. My pen just glides over the pages. I use it for script idea, writing advertising copy, memos(Although I have several computer generated note pads)and just jotting down things. I like the idea that my moleskine doesn't do anything else. No scrolling, cell phoning, internet access, etc. It just want you to write in it.

The NY Times tipped me off to your site. Nice to read what other cult members have to say.

More later.

[Juhapekka Tolvanen]

I live in a city called Jyväskylä. It is in Finland. Finland is in Europe.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finland
http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/fi.html
http://www.funet.fi/resources/clickable-Suomi.html
http://dmoz.org/Regional/Europe/Finland/
http://www.helsinki.fi/~eisaksso/tarja.html

[Pamela]

I'm a total newbie to this whole world! Who whoo! Yahoo Weekly Picks featured the 43 Folders (www.43folders.com) site which lead me to the D*I*Y Planner site (www.diyplanner.com) which got me to Googling Moleskine! I went right out and got me some and, well, now I'm on a mission from god!

[Michelle]

greetings!

i am from malaysia, and i haven't got a moleskine yet, but i anticipate owning one more and more ever single day!

my bf from australia is getting me 3, and i can't wait for it to arrive!

[Carol]

I am an information technology professional who spends a lot of time typing on a keyboard. Surfing on writing I found this wonderful site. I have a plan for my moleskine;I hope to be still and capture some thoughts and write them in my first moleskine ever...the tech world can become hectic and all consuming
we need to cultivate an inner stillness and creativity to compensate. This blog/site is incredibly interesting with so many links to so many creative uses of the moleskine...thank you for putting this one up!

I will be back to read more and enjoy!

[Robert]

I am a writer for a non-profit in Washington, D.C. I use the small, ruled Moleskine for my daily journaling. I usually fill in five to seven pages a day, which means I go through a journal every month or 45 days.

What do I put in my journal? Well, everything that crosses my mind, plus a few sundry artifacts like ticket stubs, newspaper clippings, magazine photos. When I finish a Moleskine, I put it on the shelf, with the rest of my journals.

[jimmy kendall]

hi im doing a current events article for my 7th grade social studies class. i found a article in the chicago tribune on november 3 2005. and rote my report on this web site.

[julian]

Just fell into this group, like Alice falling down a rabbit hole - and it is such a delightful place to be!
From here, in the swamps of Alabama, I greet all and send my best wishes.
My moleskine experience - for years I have wanted something to keep with me to try and capture fleeting thoughts, images, words... tried spiral books, small ledgers, all just...somehow...unsatisfactory...then along come the moleskine!!! perfect for thoughts which evolve into haiku or other poetry, essays, odd thoughts, outpouring of angst, recording of hopes or dreams...if I had the money I would buy large stock in the company as these little books will become more and more popular!...the moleskine have a niche that is quite unique, and appeal to people on a level which cannot be easily explained. But either you 'get it', or you don't. The moleskine are almost 'Zen'.

If I may make one suggestion to first timers: Please! Don't be hesitant or fearful of messing up your first one; just write! Anything, everything. You will find that as time goes on, you will automatically begin to develop your own style and your own method. And whatever it may be, it will be right for you! Enjoy these simple pleasures.

[Sam Nielsen]

Hello all. My name is Sam Nielsen. I'm 15, and live in Sydney, Australia. As a writer and reader, I often have various notebooks. This year, I looked into other, better quality notebook. I thought my search was obselete. Until I stumbled upon a "legendary notebook".

I looked into the quality, and was VERY inpressed. It is almost like a portal to the 1920's. I intend on buying two, despite their price.

Next year, I may be heading to Shanghai. Should I actually go, I will make sure that i invest in another Legendary Notebook.

Keep Writing!

[Valerie]

oooo what a fun site! I thought you might want to add that the band Sigur Ros has just relased their own Moleskines...you can see a picture of them here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sigurros/58564481/

I want one.

[Omega]

Recent owner of a new pocket plain moleskine. Loving it so far.. great for doodling in and taking quick notes. :)

[Alexandra Fallows]

I'm a compulsive scribbler. My purses and pockets overflow with paper napkins from cafes that I've doodled or written on, thoughts too precious at the time to be forgotten-- or so I think until I've dug the scraps out during my junk purges and flung them straight into the trash. People have bought me notebooks and journals galore, but they were either too pretty to write in, or I hated the paper texture, or something else undefinable.

Moleskines are one of the few brands of notebooks that pass my exacting standards. I love the snooty, pretentious cachet of pulling one out, I love the paper, and I love the form of the book itself-- elegant, classic, and just masculine enough to be ironically feminine.

I stumbled across this site at complete random, but must confess that I am delighted to find that it exists. It's fascinating to see other people's thoughts about these books, and what can be done with them.

[McGill]

I'm now a proud new owner of a Moleskine notebook. I've been searching a long time for a good notebook that fits well in my pocket. Finally, my quest is over. These things are perfect. It's easy to see why so many were heartbroken when the original manufacturer died and the production of these wonderful notebooks ended. I always have random fits of needing to write, and carrying around a laptop for this purpose is cumbersome and stupid. This is perfect, whether I need to write, jot down some notes, or scribble down a phone number.

[Peter Andersen]

Hi, a shout from Århus, Denmark.

Being a stationary junkie for many years, but having neglected the whole journal-thing for many years, I have finally found my way back home :)

Having started on a new study-course required me to purchase a calendar (having a memory-span only slightly longer than a goldfish makes a calendar or daily planner quite useful). The calendar I bought is a standard spiral-thingy of the sort that has always annoyed me.

Being a blogger I happened to stumble across the near-magic name of Moleskine, a notebook of some sort, and had to google it.

Here i am, 24 hours later, and have ordered a lined pocket notebook and the daily-planner 2005.

Let me stand before you and declare : "Hi, my name is Peter and I'm a Moleskine addict"

[S. Kro]

Hi! I'm from Vienna, Austria. I love my Mo to write during boring school lessons and also in nice cafés. Best Wishes, Skro

[Moritz]

Got my first Moleskine today - finally!

Hello from the U.S. in rural Alabama. I am so thrilled to find this site. I thought I was the only fanatic towards books and pens. I am a 49 year ols aspiring poet/writer. Wow, what a midlife change, huh? I had been forever looking for a notebook I could take with me on a daily basis to jo