on keeping a notebook

[nibot]

So, I like to keep a notebook, you know, in addition to a lab notebook. A smaller notebook for doodles and people's addresses and my shoppings lists and recipes and maps and receipts and to-do lists and airplane itineraries and to serve as a generalized permanent scratch paper and whatever else catches my fancy.

You would think that finding a substrate for such scribblings would be easy, but it turns out that I am very picky. The default size of a 'Composition Book' is 9 ¾" × 7 ½". This is too small. I much prefer the 10 ¼ × 7 ⅞" format. And then there are the matters of: college ruled, quadrille, or unmarked? Pencil or pen?

Roaring Spring catalog #77479 looks good - but where to buy?

Comments

[indomitable-one.livejournal.com]

I'm a huge Moleskine fan, but they're smaller than you prefer. I also go for unlined paper--I haven't voluntarily written on lines since my sophomore year in HS, when I started using blank copy paper for everything. In college, I'd use blank sketch books, which, if you decide to go for blank, might work nicely for you.

Also, www.sortfloorbooks.com is where I get my Moleskines from--they sell remainder ones, so I generally find them for about 75% off. Good deal--might be worth checking into for other journal-type books. :-)