I guess I wasn’t the only one seduced by Bruce Chatwin’s elegy over the last moleskine notebooks in The Songlines, as Moleskine the company have re-introduced them. I’m a fan of the original hardback notebook, but I wanted to try the softcover version.
Now I’ve read some bad reviews of it online but I figured those people had had in their back pockets or something. I carry mine in the inside pocket of my jacket.
Well it turns out that it started falling apart almost immediately, and after a year of moderate use the bottom of the back pocket had split, allowing stuff to fall out of it. I got a new hardcover instead.
The Volant are coloured, slightly thicker versions of the cahiers. They suck though, as they lack the cahier’s back pocket/flap. This can split too but it’s easy to reinforce with some tape.