This is why God made Barnes & Noble...
Category: Books & Writing...
Posted Friday, August 17, 2007 at 10:30 PM [GMT-6]

Michael Shannon gives detailed instructions on how to make your own "Moleskine-like" writing journal, complete with a Naugahyde cover.

There's probably a site somewhere that will instruct you on how to make your own "Michelin-like" tires for your SUV, and I'm sure there's a valid sense of self-satisfaction from doing just that...but would you really want to thread the 18-wheelers on I-20 on them?

Hat (store-bought) tip to Jacky's Blog.

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I just can't get excited about a DIY Moleskine. As your post title implies, I'll buy mine at Barnes & Noble and maybe stumble across another good read while I'm at it.

I'm partial to the gridded variety, and use them for my notes at work.

Posted by: Kelly at August 18, 2007 09:00 AM

Sometimes the making is better than the having.

But yeah, I'd draw the line somewhere this side of "tires for your truck."

(by the way, those instructions are very easy to follow. :-)

Posted by: Brian at August 18, 2007 10:30 AM

I've been thinking about this, because I am a notebook junkie. But to make it with ordinary copier or printer paper seems like such waste of time, effort and paper. Now if the old boy had crafted his OWN PAPER, and then made the notebook, I'd be more impressed---or used 100% cotton rag, or rice paper, or papyrus ...

Posted by: Deborah at August 18, 2007 08:44 PM
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