"Here’s another of my home-made Circa notebooks. If the cover looks somewhat familiar, it’s because it’s made from the buff cover of a Moleskine Cahier personal. Within are blank, ruled and squared pages from 6 Cahiers which are bound together with the buff covers by five ½-inch Circa rings.
This Moleskine-turned-Circa notebook is the answer to my stash of unused (and relatively inexpensive) Moleskine Cahiers that I’d been stocking up from my neighbourhood Borders. One reason I never got round to using them was because I used to dislike the perforated pages in the second half of a Moleskine Cahier. “Used to” but now I love them because the perforations make the pages so easy
to detach from the main notebook.
I also have a small stash of Moleskine Volants which won’t be turned into Circa notebooks at all. The Volant range has been discontinued so they are collectors’ items!
Chet Chin
Petaling Jaya
Malaysia
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I’ve been thinking about doing the same thing. Did you hand cut the edges, or have a printer bust the spines off with a machine? I don’t understand the value of the perf with a circa book, the pages are already easy to remove. I would probably have them bust it on the other side of the perf, since the perf is more annoying than anything, but it would let you remove pages and then pull the perf off to get a clean edge.
I tore the pages along the perforated edges, which gave me pages slightly narrower than the width of the Cahier covers. The rest of the pages, I used my rolling trimmer to trim close to the width of the perforated pages.
I did find that, because I used perforated pages from 6 different Cahiers, the width were all different, because no two Cahiers were perforated at the same width.
Hope the above helps.
Thanks for the info. I’ve got a printer down the street I’ve used to bust and punch reams of paper for me, I’ll probably take mine down there and get it all lopped off at once. I’ve got three large and three large extra large cahiers, but I’m not all that crazy about them. With a Circa I wouldn’t have to “commit” to a book since the pages are movable, and it would be a good way to use some nice Moleskine paper in a homebrew notebook.