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nuuna Notebooks

Kishi Machiko alerted us to the availability of nuuna notebooks from Japan. 

"nuuna is a new and iconic notebook line from brandbook made with extraordinary cover materials, selected paper, powerful colors and uncompromising attention to detail.  

nuuna Beach is made with a beautiful linen-covers hardback, 192 pages of 90g premium dotted paper. Each book has a paper pocket in the back which is same color as elastic strap.

The inside front and back cover is lined with matching colored paper. Available in medium (5.55" x 8.14") or small (3.58" x 5.19")"

"Linen-covered and hardback". Keywords that beckon to the affcionado. I was sent a sample of an similar notebook in the early days of Notebookism. It just sat on my desk like a touchstone - too pretty to even write on. 

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Link Love

We close this week's postings with much appreciation to all our friends, old and new who sent greetings and linked to us in the past couple of weeks.

Pencil Revolution

Office Supply Geek

Field Notes

Philofaxy

Everyday Correspondence

and all others who have sent their readers our way. Thank you so much. 

Finally, a special sponsor shout out to Rhodia Drive.

Feel free to leave a comment here or send your links and suggestions to my email: notebookism@gmail.com. Have a fun weekend everyone! - Armand

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The Handwritten Poems of Famous Authors

Wrapping up "handwriting week" at Notebookism is this feature from The Atlantic on handwritten verses by famous authors.

"Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently," Jean Cocteau once. Examining the handwritten poems of famous authors—those made popular by their texts and several famous for other art forms—offers a kind of intimacy that typed words cannot convey.

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Proust's Handwriting

This could be very well become handwriting week here at Notebookism as we feature this shared link from the New Yorker.

"Pages from the working notebooks, the “Cahiers,” are written in fluid, all but illegible script, suggesting that Proust wrote quickly and easily. He wrote in lined notebooks, with double-lined red margins, where you sometimes find the absent-minded doodling of the author; at other times, he seems to be elaborating on the things he has set down."

Read the full article by Mary Hawthorne

Margaret Thatcher's Handwriting

"This is quite a masculine hand in many ways, but it is softened slightly by the lack of sharp points on letters like n, m and h. It shows that she's a little bit broader in her approach, able to listen to people – even if she doesn't always agree." - Eileen Quigley, former chair of the British Institute of Graphologists, is also a psychologist

The Guardian

Welcome back Rhodia!

We close this week with a special shoutout to our friends at Rhodia as they rejoin Notebookism.

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Feel free to leave a comment here or send your links and suggestions to my email: notebookism@gmail.com. Have a fun weekend everyone! - Armand

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WORD Notebooks

WORD offers a simple, yet efficient approach to note-keeping. 

"Each features a unique system for keeping all the things you jot down in order. Your to-do lists will be cleaner, your notes will be more organized and your notebook won’t look like a disaster. Every Word. Notebook is designed and made right in the USA."

In a market steadily filling up with all sorts of pocket jotters, it's no longer about simply being a notebook. Or is it?

WORD. Official page. 

Moleskine in the Digital Age

NPR's Marketplace featured Moleskine the other day as the company goes public.

"What's the future of a paper company in the digital age? For Italian notebook maker Moleskine, it's bright enough to raise $300 million from investors. Moleskine has built a profitable niche-selling notebooks modeled on the ones used by artists such as Vincent Van Gogh and Ernest Hemingway. But once the company's stock begins trading publicly on Wednesday, Moleskine will have to keep growing to keep shareholders happy. It has a plan."

I was supposed to be interviewed but that didn't pull through on time. 

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Stainless Steel Sharpie

(Photo: Office Supply Geek)

Recently making its appearance is this sleek marker from Sharpie, refillable and fine-tipped. Will probably bleed through most notebook pages but great for doodling on covers and anything writable that happens to be around it. Laser-etched logo, too! Pew! pew! pew! 

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Letterpress and Notebooks

Uploaded a while back, this video from Field Notes gives us a peek at how their notebooks are made. Having been around letterpress machines as a kid, this short documentary really took me back in time. 

Product link: Field Notes