The Miquelrius: The flexible Moleskine?
Miquelrius is a company located in Spain (near Barcelona) that has been in the stationary business for over 150 years. I happened to find their Moleskine-esque softcover notebook ($9) in a New York...
View ArticleThe Perfect Moleskine (And you can’t have it)
According to legend, when famed travel writer Bruce Chatwin learned that his favorite notebook, a moleskine manufactured by a small company in Paris, was being discontinued, he immediately went to the...
View ArticleXonex Ru: The (Very) Soft Cover Black Book
Today, we’re reviewing the Xonex Ru journal ($5.95). Check it out: Let’s get the obvious out of the way: we know it’s not black. However, it’s the best we could do under short notice. Someone had sent...
View ArticleThe Alwych Book: The perfect soft cover, the perfect notebook?
Before we get to the review of Scotland’s Alwych Book… …I’d like to quote something from the Moleskine insert: “Moleskine is the heir of the legendary notebook used for the past two centuries by great...
View ArticleThe Cartesio: A Notebook From Florence
Since this website began a year ago, finding black notebooks has become an increasingly difficult task. We’ve covered everything from the common to those of the no-longer-available variety, and very...
View ArticleTravels and Old Notebooks Revisited
Hey everyone! Contrary to popular belief, we’re still alive. The past couple months have been pretty crazy – for various reasons, I’ve been on trips to Spain, Italy, Chicago, New Mexico, and Cape Cod,...
View ArticleWould you bring the Habana to Havana? The Quo Vadis Notebook
Recently, Exaclair, Inc. (stationery importers of such fine products as the Rhodia line to the USA) sent me an unexpected package of notebooks for review, and by recently, I mean quite a while ago....
View ArticleThe Art of Japanese Paper-making: The Awagami +1
Most of our notebook reviews fall into one of three categories. There’s the positive review, with maybe a few hints for improvement. Then there’s the generally negative review, wherein we try to be...
View ArticleThe Bible of Notebooks: The Allan’s Journal
Recently, I’ve seen a number of notebooks on the market whose origins are pretty creative. For example, Book Journals takes old hard cover books from the 1950s and 1960s and converts them into...
View ArticleThe Moleskine That Folds In Half: The Guildhall Notebook
When we first began this site, one of the biggest problems we had was finding out about new little black notebooks. Luckily, as we’ve grown, you readers have become our prime source for learning of the...
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