Comments on: What’s a Moleskine worth? http://dangerous-thinking.com/2004/06/16/whats-a-moleskine-worth/ David Rosam on SEO copywriting, Ethical SEO and Marketing Wed, 09 Sep 2009 19:32:51 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Murky.org http://dangerous-thinking.com/2004/06/16/whats-a-moleskine-worth/comment-page-1/#comment-168 Murky.org Fri, 21 Jan 2005 19:29:55 +0000 http://dangerous-thinking.com/?p=770#comment-168 <strong>Ciak Journals</strong> At long last I've found the Italian supplier of my favourite notebook, Ciak. These are quite hard to find in the UK, a website called City Organiser have just stopped selling them (I got the last three). They're also available... Ciak Journals

At long last I’ve found the Italian supplier of my favourite notebook, Ciak. These are quite hard to find in the UK, a website called City Organiser have just stopped selling them (I got the last three). They’re also available…

]]> By: murky http://dangerous-thinking.com/2004/06/16/whats-a-moleskine-worth/comment-page-1/#comment-166 murky Fri, 21 Jan 2005 18:19:20 +0000 http://dangerous-thinking.com/?p=770#comment-166 To answer the question of 'why pay more than the retail of a notebook', for me, it depends on the job. For something like a journal, I want a certain 'feel', a quality about the book, a jotter from Rymans isn't going to cut the mustard. For myself, I use 'ciak' journals. By the way, your trackback ping url is a relative url, which means that the trackback breaks - I had to manually add in the website address to the trackback. TrackBack URL for this entry: /cgi-bin/mt-link.cgi/2892 ^ Note, incomplete - will work from your server only! Take care, To answer the question of ‘why pay more than the retail of a notebook’, for me, it depends on the job.

For something like a journal, I want a certain ‘feel’, a quality about the book, a jotter from Rymans isn’t going to cut the mustard.

For myself, I use ‘ciak’ journals.

By the way, your trackback ping url is a relative url, which means that the trackback breaks – I had to manually add in the website address to the trackback.

TrackBack URL for this entry:
/cgi-bin/mt-link.cgi/2892
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Take care,

]]> By: Murky.org http://dangerous-thinking.com/2004/06/16/whats-a-moleskine-worth/comment-page-1/#comment-167 Murky.org Fri, 21 Jan 2005 18:15:54 +0000 http://dangerous-thinking.com/?p=770#comment-167 <strong>Ciak Journals</strong> At long last I've found the Italian supplier of my favourite notebook, Ciak. These are quite hard to find in the UK, a website called City Organiser have just stopped selling them (I got the last three). They're also available... Ciak Journals

At long last I’ve found the Italian supplier of my favourite notebook, Ciak. These are quite hard to find in the UK, a website called City Organiser have just stopped selling them (I got the last three). They’re also available…

]]> By: David Rosam http://dangerous-thinking.com/2004/06/16/whats-a-moleskine-worth/comment-page-1/#comment-165 David Rosam Wed, 30 Jun 2004 22:21:49 +0000 http://dangerous-thinking.com/?p=770#comment-165 Oh gawd. Caught by me own irony, I woz, mate... I'm someone who goes out of my way not to buy anything that has an overpriced logo or aspirational brand attached to it - a long story that probably will take us into some unsavoury backwaters of my psyche, but rationalised somewhere in the region of where the added value lies, if at all. I actually bought the Moleskine out of curiosity (£11.25 in a stationer's in Brighton), and being a Bruce Chatwin nut (The Songlines is one of my favourite books) - as you're probably aware, Chatwin is part of the mythology attached to these things. Sure enough, it doesn't deliver value. I may not even buy another one, but it does have an artisan charm that's nice to have around. I'll try to use it sparingly and migrate as much of my note-taking as possible to my Palm. Oh gawd. Caught by me own irony, I woz, mate…

I’m someone who goes out of my way not to buy anything that has an overpriced logo or aspirational brand attached to it – a long story that probably will take us into some unsavoury backwaters of my psyche, but rationalised somewhere in the region of where the added value lies, if at all.

I actually bought the Moleskine out of curiosity (£11.25 in a stationer’s in Brighton), and being a Bruce Chatwin nut (The Songlines is one of my favourite books) – as you’re probably aware, Chatwin is part of the mythology attached to these things.

Sure enough, it doesn’t deliver value.

I may not even buy another one, but it does have an artisan charm that’s nice to have around.

I’ll try to use it sparingly and migrate as much of my note-taking as possible to my Palm.

]]> By: Paul Makepeace http://dangerous-thinking.com/2004/06/16/whats-a-moleskine-worth/comment-page-1/#comment-164 Paul Makepeace Wed, 30 Jun 2004 10:27:19 +0000 http://dangerous-thinking.com/?p=770#comment-164 OK, what is it about Moleskine notebooks that people will pay *thirteen quid* for one? I like the way the cover fits flush with the pages, and the little bit of placeholding elastic is handy... Neither of those features seem to compel me to spend 3x expected retail for a notebook. So.. please enlighten me :-) OK, what is it about Moleskine notebooks that people will pay *thirteen quid* for one? I like the way the cover fits flush with the pages, and the little bit of placeholding elastic is handy… Neither of those features seem to compel me to spend 3x expected retail for a notebook.

So.. please enlighten me :-)

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