Fashion Slave Or Sensible Practice?
So, I'm starting two new businesses and needed a new notebook for collecting handwritten notes. I could have trotted down to Target and purchased a ninety-nine cent spiral-bound notepad, but I didn't. Somehow I talked myself into justifying paying fifteen bucks for a Moleskin Large Ruled Journal.
Did I really need thread-bound binding? No.
Did I really need 240 lined Italian acid-free pages? Well, I needed pages. Let's leave it at that.
Did I really need the built-in elastic closure to hold the sturdy cover closed? No, but it comes in handy by preventing papers you stick inside from inadvertently falling out.
Did I really need an expandable accordion pocket? No, but I've found I use it.
Why did I buy a Moleskine, then? Do I really want to emulate Sean Penn. Doubtful (although I still believe At Close Range was a good movie). Or, did I become enchanted with the knowledge that the same notebooks were the choice of Hemingway, Matisse, van Gogh and others?
Let's just say my Moleskine's an outstanding complement to my Apple PowerBook. I'll leave it at that.
Did I really need thread-bound binding? No.
Did I really need 240 lined Italian acid-free pages? Well, I needed pages. Let's leave it at that.
Did I really need the built-in elastic closure to hold the sturdy cover closed? No, but it comes in handy by preventing papers you stick inside from inadvertently falling out.
Did I really need an expandable accordion pocket? No, but I've found I use it.
Why did I buy a Moleskine, then? Do I really want to emulate Sean Penn. Doubtful (although I still believe At Close Range was a good movie). Or, did I become enchanted with the knowledge that the same notebooks were the choice of Hemingway, Matisse, van Gogh and others?
Let's just say my Moleskine's an outstanding complement to my Apple PowerBook. I'll leave it at that.
posted by Erik Eckel at 10:25 PM
1 Comments:
They're very nice, but a small legal pad thingy works just as well, and comes without the psychological barriers preventing you from marking it up with the scratch, scrawl, doodle, and junk that help the process along.
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