Just spotted this article: Why Startups Love Moleskines – The New Yorker, which notes that “the popularity of Moleskine notebooks seems to defy the widespread worship of technological innovations coming out of Silicon Valley.” Ok, that is a trend that has been talked about a lot, and I’ll actually read the rest of the article later, but what struck me was this image that accompanies it on the New Yorker website:
It is a very nice-looking notebook, but I can’t help wondering if it is really a Moleskine! In my experience, Moleskine brand notebooks never have that larger margin at the top before the lines begin– the lines are evenly spaced over the whole page, and sometimes cut very close to the top edge of the paper. The lines also look a bit darker than usual for a Moleskine, but that seems to vary in some of their print runs. This could maybe be a Piccadilly, but they don’t usually have that extra space either. Maybe some other Mole-clone brand?
The medium/large size Moleskines have a header like that on top, only the pocket sized ones are lined all the way through. Most of these notebooks these days have darker lines, you can tell just by looking at the edge in the store.
Looks like a Markings?