yet another moleskine review

[matthewk]

After reading some of the more recent posts about moleskines and never having one, I order a large square notebook and a small Japanese notebook. There is so much said about paper quality and moleskine design. I wanted a smallish notebook that could be carried around and treated roughly, I especially like the back pocket and keep a few note cards in there as well as some I.D. cards. The elastic keeps things together. I've only had the notebook for a couple of days but have gotten a good feel for it. I figure and absolute worse case scenario for this notebook would be as a defensive tool.....push comes to shove you could put a hurting on a "unmotivated" attacker, It's a weird thing to think about I know....but it was one of my considerations. Break a nose, put it in a solar plexus, or just take a little poetic justice out on a critic.

 

It seemed too nice to write in at first so I just wrote the first page as "nonsense" about ink and what I thought of the notebook. That allowed me to treat this like a notebook...thats key to understanding this for me. It's a notebook that can stand up to some abuse. I've been thinking a lot about bookbinding lately and wouldn't mind doing a moleskine style notebook with better paper....it's just a dream right now.

 

Here is a picture of some PR velvet back coming out of a Kaweco MED nib ED pen from swisher. I don't mind a bit of ink showing through on my notes..and this is my "note" quality handwriting at this stage.

 

matthew

[limesally]

Here is a picture of some PR velvet back coming out of a Kaweco MED nib ED pen from swisher. I don't mind a bit of ink showing through on my notes..and this is my "note" quality handwriting at this stage.

 

matthew

 

Hey, your penmanship is not so bad. It's perfectly legible!

 

FWIW, I have had almost no luck with PR ink in my moleskines. Certainly not with a med nib.

Also I confess I tend to use a few back pages as ink/nib test pages. It's messy but fun

 

[matthewk]

Thanks for the compliments on my penmanship. I'm fairly new to all of this and it has improved a lot. My pen and nib choice is purely expedient. PR is the only ink I have on hand...my pilot 78g fine needs a little work. I have some more inks coming soon and hope to give them a try. I have a rollabind system so my very first journal pages were written on the back of math notes(printed out)....cheap paper with a wet pen.......gives you a better idea of me and paper.

 

 

 

matthew

[ojars]

Matthew,

 

Your picture could have come straight from my Moleskines. My two-sided results look very much like yours.

[blopplop]

Matthew,

 

Your picture could have come straight from my Moleskines. My two-sided results look very much like yours.

 

 

Ditto...

 

Dave

[matthewk]

Matthew,

 

Your picture could have come straight from my Moleskines. My two-sided results look very much like yours.

 

 

Ditto...

 

Dave

 

I really expected things to be a lot worse from all the negative things I've read. I've filled up more of my notebook since then and have been keeping a watchful eye on things. I guess I don't have to anymore.

 

thanks,

matthew