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| Moleskine Ruled Notebook Large | 
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| Brand: Moleskine
Category: Book
List Price: $17.95
Buy New: $9.62
You Save: $8.33 (46%)
New (41) Used (8) from $9.62
Avg. Customer Rating:  8 reviews
Media: Imitation Leather
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 240
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 0.5 x 8.3 x 5
nv: : 240 pages
MPN: MBL14
ISBN: 8883701127
EAN: 9788883701122
Publication Date: January 1, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: New still in shrink wrap
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| Features:
| • | Italian Moleskine with acid-free pages, | | • | Thread bound within a moleskin cover and secured with an elastic band. | | • | Expandable pocket made of cloth and paper inside back cover | | • | Perfect for receipts, trinkets, memories or business cards. | | • | Large size Ruled 240 pages |
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Product Description
Picture Hemingway jotting in a notebook while surrounded by veteran war correspondents or Van Gogh struggling to capture his tortured thoughts with quick sketches and notes. This is the notebook they both used, the Italian Moleskine with acid-free pages, thread bound within a moleskin cover and secured with an elastic band. Inside the back cover is an expandable pocket made of cloth and paper; perfect for receipts, trinkets, memories or business cards.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 3 more reviews...
 just right December 2, 2008
I feel like it's the notebook Little Red Riding Hood would have settled on. The thing has a cover which is durable enough without being too thick, is well bound, compact and outfitted with a discrete pocket and elastic binder. In a word- 'optimal'.
Best Choice for Journaling November 24, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I've been journaling ever since I was a pimply-faced teenager, and now I'm 31. In that time, I've used all varieties of notebooks, and filled them all. I came across the Moleskine brand a few years ago, and now I won't use anything else. The large ruled notebook is sturdy, of excellent construction, holds I think 265 pages, and the pages will not fall out. This notebook is best for writers and diarists.
I wouldn't use this book for school because, first of all, it is expensive. Second of all, it's a bit of overkill. I doubt you'll take a class in which you'll have time to fill up this notebook. You'll be more organized in a class if you buy a simple lab book or composition book to take notes in for each class.
I know a lot of people who try to write in jounals. They buy them with the best intentions, write a couple of pages, and then seem to forget about them and eventually buy ANOTHER journal, in which they will write a few pages and forget about. The key is just to keep the SAME journal, to keep in it in the same safe place, and to write in it whenever you feel like it, even if months go by without you touching it. If someone buys you another journal, fill up the first one first, and then move on to the new one. You can learn from my experience and start with the best, which is Moleskine. Otherwise . . . do whatever you want. The main thing is just to have something to write in.
I've also used all variety of pens. My choice is the Pilot Precise V5. Every now and then you'll get a bum one, that you've just got to throw away because it's not writing smoothly or properly. But, for the most part, these are the best choice for journaling and writing. They are fine point. They last longer than gel ink. They require no pressure whatsoever to be placed on the tip, as ball-point pens do, and they don't smear.
The best way to take notes October 28, 2008
These ruled notebooks are the best way to take notes for class, creative writing, or general thoughts. It has high portability, quality paper, and sturdy binding and cover.
 A Ferrari exterior, with a Pinto drivetrain September 30, 2008
13 out of 14 found this review helpful
Okay. I admit it. I fell for the hype. Not so much the company line ("this book used by famous artists, and writers" blah blah blah)... but the beautiful exterior, clean professional design, and... naively... assumed that for twelve bucks, I was getting something nice.
Well... yes and no.
They're "okay". Everything I thought was special about them is true. They really look like something a professional would use. They look like something you could proudly use to write in while your sipping a latte at Starbucks. They have a look that makes people ask you what you're writing in, and where you got it.
Unfortunately, it doesn't deliver on the aspect that I took for granted. The paper.
I'd read some reviews that said the paper was cheap, and that it wasn't good for artists. I... equally naively... disregarded those opinions, because I couldn't believe that such a nice (and expensive) product would go cheap on the most important part of a notebook. The part you write/draw on.
I've tried gel pens, felt pens, ball-point pens, liquid ink pens... they all cause problems. Gel pens, and liquid ink pens smudge too much to be of any use (great for artists, eh?). Ball point pens are just cheap, ugly, and work poorly, and felt-tip pens look nice, and dry quickly enough, but bleed straight through to the other side, forcing you to only write on one side of each page. Certainly not what a journal writer, or novelist would prefer.
If there is a form of pen that writes on these things satisfactorily, I've honestly not found it.
I wanted to love the Moleskine. I love the story (I didn't believe the story about Picasso, Hemingway, or Chatwin, but it is a compelling one). I love the design. I love the binding. I love the elastic strap. I love the bookmark. I love everything about them except for the paper.
It'd be like buying a Ferrari, and finding out someone replaced the engine with that of a Pinto. It looks great. Its a conversation starter. You might impress some people. Yet in the end, it just isn't satisfying to use.
Honestly, the paper in a ninety nine cent composition book is better.
I'll be looking elsewhere from now on.
The Best Notebook in the World! September 26, 2008
I've been using Moleskine notebooks and calendars for about 4 years now and they are by far my notebook of choice. The quality cannot be appreciated until you've tried one for yourself. Extremely well constructed and made to last forever. I've been recommending them to everyone I know ever since and recently got the feedback, "They're addictive! Once you start writing in one you can't stop!" I love these notebooks and highly recommend them.
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