moleskinerie: Moleskinerie needs your support

On this final fundraising weekend, please indulge this last repost of our appeal:

As you may already know, Moleskinerie.com is a personal project run by our friends and myself. With increasing traffic (more than 17,000/ week) from notebook aficionados all over the world what used to be a hobby now takes a considerable chunk of my personal time. Beside website maintenance, responding to email and written queries has become part of my daily routine.

The little ad revenue we receive goes straight to pay for hosting fees. With a modest budget we need your support to keep Moleskinerie online.

Our immediate requirement is a notebook PC to replace the temporary equipment we are currently using. We also need help with connectivity, stationery, mailing (for the resumption of the Wandering Moleskine Project) and other expenses.

To help raise funds, we are holding an auction on eBay. If you wish to help we'd like to hear from you. You can also donate any amount via

Thanks for making Moleskinerie.com the premier fansite for these legenday notebooks. Help keep us eclectic and free!

Armand B. Frasco
Founder
www.moleskinerie.com

Thanks to author Jonathan Carroll for his generous help ( check out his new book, "Glass Soup") and Neil Gaiman for the link. I'd also like to thank Kikkerland Design for donating some items to this fund drive.

Mkenotes As part of our 2nd Anniversary celebrations (1.12.06 ) Moleskinerie is launching "Moleskine Notes", a series of essays by Moleskine users around the world starting next month. To be considered, write an essay (500-1000 words) on your Moleskine experience and email it to us. Put "MOLESKINE NOTES ENTRY" as subject. If chosen, you will receive a gift from Moleskinerie. We look forward to reading your story soon!

Birthday greetings to our friends @ Moleskinerie/ORKUT:
Venus 81, October 17, Philip Sharman, October 18, Aki Y. October 24 and Guilherme Avila October 26

Get out, have a life - and write about it! Be back on Monday.
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Updates

DONORS' LIST a.k.a "Thank-You-Thank-You" !

- "Many thanks for all of your hard work on the website. It is a daily ritual to check the site and I enjoy it very much. Best wishes " Andrew Foster, UK

- "Not much but at least something (do get a Mac though :-)" Jan Erik Mostrom

- Tricia Leach
- Trumpetvine

- "I'm glad to send a contribution! I've been using Moleskines since 2001 when I found them in London--long before the mania hit the US. I love your site for its creative links. You've made a significant site that goes far beyond the usefulness of the notebooks!" Nita Van Zandt

- Richard Collette
- Marcus Brownlow
- Wendee Lee

- "I am a long-time user of Moleskines and have greatly enjoyed your website. I particularly appreciate the open-ended way you run it, giving room to many postings that have nothing to do with Moleskines, but are intrinsically interesting." Armando A. Armendariz

-"I have only known about Moleskinerie for a short while but I visit it every day..." Kate Marshall

- "I've been reading the Moleskinerie for some time now and I'd love to donate a hedgehog to the effort of keeping it alive." Leslie Herger

- Christine MacDougall
- John Gamber
- Theresa Hogel
- Anonymous
- Jonathan Richstein
- Erik Bates
- Michael Shea
- Karen Winters
- Anonymous
- Rebecca Rowan
- Richard Jack
- Kathryn Marshall
- Elizabeth Rotundo
- "Thank you for many enjoyable discoveries, tangents, and pieces of weird, wonderful, artistic news." -
Alia

Update: 8.20 P CST 10.23.05

Congratulations to pointykitty, kgee30 and judex32 for winning. Thanks to everyone else who bid on the items and sent donations. We truly appreciate your help. We have a few more to auction in the coming days.

As of today, this fund drive received a total of $ 972.00 which should help cover our DSL and other bills. We are also excited to announce that an anonymous benefactor is donating a brand new laptop for our use!! We have even received an offer for free office space! How cool is that?

To those who sent their regrets due to personal constraints, etc. No worries - your visits inspire us and keep us going, too. Moleskinerie.com wouldn't have become what it is today were it not for all of you. Besides, the PayPal button is always "on". ^_^

Dank u wel, grazie, domo arigato, muchas gracias, merci, obrigado, salamat, thank you!

Now back to regular programming.

Armand
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Update: 10.31.05 3.50 P CST

The Brown truck just delivered the biggest Halloween treat ever...

Thanks..."Anonymous";)

Update:

Additional donations.

"Hi to you - sorry it is so small but my wife has been on disability for almost 2 years, had major surgery and we are only now beginning to do better; but I was so impressed with your site and the great work, it seemed a shame to not offer at least a little that we can do for now...Keep up the great work. Blessings to you and your loved ones" - J. C.H. 11.8.05

- Lorianne DiSabato
- Jens Schäfer