The cult of Moleskine
I bought a Moleskine at Barnes & Noble Friday night. Not sure what I’ll do with it, but I read about them the other day… and they do seem to be well made.
What’s a Moleskine (pronounced mol-a-skeen-a) you ask? It’s basically a small, bound notebook with a hard cover and elastic band. There’s more at the Moleskine website.
The funny part is that Modo & Modo has successfully built quite a cult following around the little black notebooks…
People have developed strong opinions about what size is best, or if ruled pages are better than graph paper. Blogs like Recording Thoughts have whole categories dedicated to them, and of course there is Moleskinerie and MoleskineArt… two huge fan sites.
And now that they have been picked up by the 43 Folders productivity pr0n crowd, there are Moleskine “hacks” available.
On the other hand, there’s little love for the “overpriced notebooks with a fanatical following” over at Singularities:
What gets me are the users who ascribe mystical powers to them, or who seem to think Moleskines are so far superior to anything else that they have spawned their own art forms. For example, there is now Moleskine Art. How Moleskine art is any different than other art produced on paper has yet to be explained.
Heh.
I don’t really have an opinion about the notebooks at this point. I do, however, wish I had bought the smaller squared notebook rather than the one I got. Oh well.
