Moleskine Soft Large Squared Notebook Black: From the Berbers to the Zulus

A great everyday notebook with a sleek design!

Very nice qulity and feeling when taking notes!

For more than than five years I've been using the Moleskine Large Squared Soft notebooks to keep field notes while I start-up, test, and troubleshoot lighting controls on construction sites and in operating buildings. I fill up about six books a year. They fit in a cargo pant pocket so the notebook is always at hand without having to be always in-hand. The binding is flexible enough to allow the book to be laid open at any page. The bookmark ribbon and elastic closure band are both useful. The soft cover is nicely flexible, but is durable enough for my work. (I tried the hard cover version. It was very uncomfortable in the cargo pocket with the range of motion I go through in a day.) Being left-handed, I found spiral bound notebooks of the same size difficult to write in "over the hump". Over several weeks in the pocket, the spiral would get deformed , making the making it harder to open the book or turn through its pages; not a problem with the Moleskine. These notebooks are DEFINITELY LEFT-HAND FRIENDLY. Only two small complaints in over five years of use: first, the bookmark ribbon just fell off of one of my notebooks (that's how I figured out that the bookmark ribbon is really useful), and second, print quality of the grid has been variable in the past. Ideally the grid should be faint, fine lines that compete with my writing for the eye's or the copier's attention. At times in the past the grid has been darker and heavier. This hasn't caught my attention in the last couple of years, so maybe quality control has already taken care of it. The notebooks are a little pricey compared to a spiral-bound, but if you need or want durable and useful, it is value for the money.

Mon préféré de la gamme Moleskine : la couverture souple est belle et agréable au toucher. J'étais réticente au lignage en carreaux à l'intérieur, car j'avais pris l'habitude d'écrire sur des pages blanches. Mais après un temps d'adaptation, je trouve ce lignage très approprié et pas du tout inesthétique.Moleskine est toujours une marque fiable, il suffit de trouver le modèle qui vous convient

Simple yet elegant. Love this notebook. Smooth writing, soft cover, easy to handle while writing. Really the best notebook I've owned so far.