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What the hell is wrong with a legal pad or a $1.50 mead notebook? Moleskine is a silly fashion accessory. I was ready for him to recommend never writing in yo
by kingkongrevenge 18y ago
What the hell is wrong with a legal pad or a $1.50 mead notebook? Moleskine is a silly fashion accessory. I was ready for him to recommend never writing in your moleskine with anything but a montblanc.
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- omouse 18y agoI bought one because the other notepads and notebooks I've used before did kind of suck. The binding especially was awful on those previous notebooks. But I'm no elitist, I just use a cheap blue pen :D
- kirubakaran 18y agoI felt the same way about 'Thinkpad + Ubuntu' vs MBP.
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- sachinag 18y agoI wear a blazer when I leave the home/office for this reason - I always have a Mead (or whatever Walgreen's has on sale) top-flip spiral notebook in the inside right breast pocket. Good for notes, thoughts, and writing down phone numbers. Much better than napkins or business cards after a certain hour of the night.
- reazalun 18y agoSome people don't care in where they write; $1 notepad is just fine for them. But sometimes, this same person is very particular in what they wear; hence, for example, they buy a very expensive jeans at $100. So let's ask them, "What the hell is wrong with a $30 jeans?" In a nutshell, different people have different ways in manifesting their sense of egoism. P.S. I am not a moleskine user.
- kingkongrevenge 18y agoThere is proven benefit to dressing reasonably well. You look better and people treat you better. Cheap clothing is also generally a false economy: the more expensive stuff lasts longer, at least for men's clothing. None of these clear-cut advantages apply to silly fashion accessories like pens or notepads.
- tel 18y agoI use Moleskines not for how they look now, but for how they look later. It gives me a sense of satisfaction to have personal notes stored in an attractive way. For that's it's worth the premium, though I can understand dissent. I may go away from Moleskines if I decide I want to take the effort to copy and rebind old notes. It's a tempting route.
- crescendo 18y agoI agree that this article is silly, but your tone is a bit condescending. I use a Moleskine notepad because it has a certain tactile solidity that I haven't found in cheaper notebooks. Maybe that particular quality of a notebook is not important to you, but it's not grounds to dismiss all Moleskine users as fashionistas.
- coglethorpe 18y agoYou can't set up a slick affiliate site that sells them on HackerNews very easily at a buck fifty each can you? And that is a pretty slick affiliate site.