30 December 2006
I have a problem
I have what you might call a Moleskine problem. In the photo above, you can see:
- pocket-sized music manuscript notebook
- pocket-sized ruled notebook (first entry 2002)
- journal-sized blank notebook
- journal-sized ruled notebook
- reporter-style ruled notebook
You can’t blame me, really, and to understand how it’s possible to accumulate so many Moleskines (pron. mol-e-skeen-a, apparently, although I always find myself pronouncing it like the skin of a small, light-averse animal), you have to hold one in your hands. They’re perfectly-sized, with thick, luxurious paper and proper stitched binding. They’re everything a notebook should be, really, and once you’ve used one, it’s hard to go back.
(Can you tell that, underneath it all, I’m a huge stationery nerd? My heart belongs to Smythson.)