Black Cover

CONTEST
CLOSED!!
Something neat came in the mail yesterday:

Before we get to the contest, just a note: we finally put together a full picture guide to the notebooks we’ve reviewed. We’ll hope to add helpful features such as arranging by price, hardest cover to softest cover, etc.
For those of you who are new to Black Cover, [...]

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They’re here:

Sometime last summer, I started this blog in the search for finding the perfect black notebook. I related the story of how I had, in fact, already found the perfect black notebook, but that it wasn’t being produced anymore. The Italian company behind it, Mazzuoli, had come up with a very innovative little black [...]

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Some time ago, I reviewed what I consider to be the absolute best little black notebook I’ve come across: Mazzuoli’s Stifflexible journal. The Moleskine-esque cover has two creases that allow it to be folded back, giving the notebook all the benefits of a soft cover while retaining the attributes of a hard cover.

This notebook [...]

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Some time ago, we reviewed Miquelrius’s soft-cover black notebook, which we criticized as being “about 3/4 of an inch too annoying to carry around in a standard pocket.” Let’s just say that that problem is fully solved with their latest black notebook ($5 – Kali Gift Bag), which clocks in at a diminutive 2.75″ x [...]

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In the past few entries, we’ve covered several Moleskine-esque soft covers, and one thing that has become clear: a key component of the archetypal “little black notebook” is a sturdy cover. As much as I like a soft cover that can be kept comfortably in your pocket, there is something about a durable hard cover [...]

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Hey everyone -
We had a huge number of hits last week thanks to blogs like notebookism and others. Some praised us, some called us insane, and some suggested we had too much time on our hands. We agree with all three assessments, and will be reviewing a number of new little black book brands as [...]

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