Remember the Elder Dr. Jones' Grail Diary from, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade? I always wanted a notebook like that... In fact, I have always been a journal freak, and have read many times about the legendary Moleskine journals. I can only imagine what a thrill it would be to look back now, if I had been disciplined about keeping one. Well I am giving it a go now!

I finally found a place to buy them, on Ebay, have purchased three of them, and they ROCK!

Honestly, it is the coolest little notebook I have ever used, but don't listen to me. Check this out.

and this...

"Yesterday, the ever-resourceful wood s lot collected online items on the Italian notebook phenomenon that is Moleskine.

I happen to have one, with its oilcloth-bound cover and thread-bound pages. (They also have an elastic band to hold it shut, a bookmark tassle, and an expandable inner note holder made of cardboard). It's a lovely object to own and use. It stimulates creativity.

One daydreams of it pristine and empty, and then covered in one's own uniform black handwriting; the result of innumerable moments of distance from the world: in a café, on a train, on a lunchbreak from work, looking out to sea. All this, one continues to imagine, might one day form into a whole, a collection of notebooks on a shelf even; something, perhaps, that will become the fertile ground for these daydreams to form into a coherent work; that is, a book.

And so, in that daydream, another daydream. And so on, perhaps.

If not a book, then perhaps the new notebook will redeem the mess of previous notebooks, all in a different formats, some incomplete, with pages still waiting, or falling to bits...."

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Romantic stuff huh... For a little notebook that fits in your pocket? But I agree with the author of that post. I have been carrying my own moleskine for the last couple of weeks, and it is great to jot down notes, ideas, experiences, etc. NOW if I could only padlock it!

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