I am posting this comment 69 days after the thread started. It was with this thread that I first heard of Moleskine notebooks. "Absurd," I thought. "Just get

I am posting this comment 69 days after the thread started. It was with this thread that I first heard of Moleskine notebooks. "Absurd," I thought. "Just get a cheap regular notebook." But something kept pining away at me. So I finally spent $15 to get a mid-sized Moleskine notebook and give it a try. If it was a waste, well, I've wasted way more than $15 before. I must say I have been pleasantly surprised, and I'm not entirely sure why. The size, the durability, the rubber band around the outside all add up for nice features in a notebook, but something about it -- and it may well be the fact that it cost $15 -- makes me take journaling my thoughts more seriously. I may will ditch it sometime, if it doesn't prove beneficial in the long-term, but at minimum, I can understand why for some people these seemingly overpriced notebooks may actually be a good thing.