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Moleskine Classic Notebooks
Journalists, artists and travelers are already familiar with Moleskine (mol-eh-skee-nuh) notebooks. Their durable covers with rounded corners, elastic band and ivory pages are iconic. While available in classic black, now you can get rich colors too. Inside the back cover is a gusseted pocket for your treasures. If these sound like something you keep, they are. The covers feel like fine leather, though they are only a coated cardboard. Even the soft covers feel rich in your hands. While they are pricier than a spiral notepad, how many spiral notepads get kept on a bookshelf as a keepsake? Use them as a daily journal, a travel memoir, record family history, or have students record their thoughts. What a fun thing to look back on some day! Writers get better when they write every day. The pages are acid-free and come with either ruled pages, grid (looks like graph paper) or dotted pages (like the game where you make boxes and put your initial inside.) The lines/dots are a soft gray on the elegant ivory. A place marking ribbon is firmly attached and matching elastic keeps the cover closed while in your pocket or bag. They are pricey notebooks, but you take care of them and take care what you write in them. I think one would make a thoughtful graduation gift or gift to a writer. You will never want to write in a plain old spiral notebook again! 240pp each. ~ Sara
