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Moleskine Notebooks

By Jesse Kornbluth
Published: Apr 24, 2019
Category: Gifts and Gadgets

In a world of fads and scams, Moleskines are the real thing, a gold standard. The leather-like cover takes more wear than you’ll ever give it. The elastic band is useful both to keep the notebook closed and to mark your place. There’s an inner pocket to hold business cards, receipts and small photographs. The spine is sewn, not glued, so the cover lies flat when it’s opened. The paper is acid-free.

Moleskines have venerable ancestry. You may have heard that these are the same notebooks favored by van Gogh, Picasso, Hemingway and Bruce Chatwin. That’s marketing. The truth is simpler. French bookbinders produced these notebooks until 1986. When they phased them out, loyalists bought hundreds. In 1998, an Italian company revived the notebooks — and expanded its offerings to include day planners, sketchbooks and city guides.

It would be pretty to think that Hemingway made notes for “The Sun Also Rises” in a Moleskine as he drank in Paris cafes. But that’s too retro for me. I’m more interested in writing as legibly as I can.

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