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- WareLogging. ThingsWhichSuck. Miquelrius actually make a ton of different notebooks, but this refers (so far) just to the ones BarnesAndNoble are selling next to the Moleskines - flexible, thin covers, kind of fat, no strap or anything. Seem prone to falling apart.
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- = brennen buys a miquelrius and decides it is lame =
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- <[[Brennen]]> I just bought one of these, because Barnes & Noble didn't have a blank or GraphPaper MoleskineNotebook in the pocket size. Too early for the full review, but plusses include a lower cost than the Moleskine ($7.33 after tax vs. $10+) and a high pagecount. Has graph paper pages with a fairly tight grid, which ain't quite as cool as blank but beats the heck out of ruled. The FountainPen I'm using bleeds through a little, but it's less than I'd expect. Soft cover, fairly thin - some kind of vinyl, I think. MadeInSpain.
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- A major flaw in this design is that, unlike the Moleskines I've been spoiled by, the binding on these doesn't let them lay flat when open. Especially a problem towards the front, where pages are left hanging up in the air with no support underneath (that thin, flexible cover certainly isn't providing any). You can wrap the pages around the back, but then you can only access about half of a page. Laying the front on a surface and holding the rest of the book up so it lays flat isn't much better, at least for the right handed. I was about ready to give up 'til I realized I could turn the book 90 degrees to one side and write landscape-format. Still not optimal, but it's a solution that'll let me use the rest of this one, at least.
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- <[[Brennen]]> Somewhat later, I've come to the conclusion that the Miquelrius basically sucks, even when heavily modified. The binding is that cheap adhesive stuff (PerfectBinding?), and doesn't involve any kind of thread. I'm only sixty pages in and about 50 of them have fallen out of the cover.
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- Before it started falling apart, I sewed on a fat elastic strap and glued a couple of envelopes inside the covers (the smaller size of ManilaEnvelopes, cut down, work pretty well). This was enough effort that I'll probably finish filling it up, but I wouldn't buy another one. If I wanted to haul around a stack of loose leaf paper, I'd spend fifty cents on some index cards and a rubber band.
- <[[Brennen]]> Addendum, early November: Have given up, somewhere around page 70, and purchased a new Moleskine.
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