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The Moleskine City Notebook

Yes­ter­day my pal Peter came back from the Anti­quar­ian Book­show in NYC. He brought back a num­ber of inter­est­ing cat­a­logs and refrained from any BIG expen­di­tures on the amaz­ing books avail­able. But that is another story.

This post is about an excit­ing an afford­able new Mole­sk­ine book. The city note­book. These books have all kinds of cool stuff for trav­el­ers. It’s got blank pages fro writ­ing notes, a slew of pages of maps, street index, (a lit­tle too small to be read­able for those whose age is on the higer side of 40) tabs, stick­ers to mark pages, and best of all reusable clear over­lays to anno­tate the maps. They are even reusable. For eras­ing I sug­gest a Mars White plastic.

So, now I can make a travel book along with maps for some of my favorite cities.

That brings up the next point. My home city isn’t included in the pub­lished books or the planned releases for 2007. This is a bum­mer. Geeze Philadel­phia is a huge vis­i­tor city. We get tons of tourists and have a slew of his­tor­i­cal places to visit… great restau­rants, muse­ums… what’s the deal with us as a mar­ket. I want to note all the cool hid­den places I find… note where I took images for map­ping to my flickr site. I’ll be writ­ing them an email after I post this.

I fig­ure if I just visit the cities with books cur­rently avail­able it will be a good start.

avail­able now:

Ams­ter­dam
Barcelona
Madrid
Milan
Dublin
Lis­bon
Lon­don
Paris
Prague
Rome
Wien

com­ing soon:

Boston
New York
San Fran­cisco
Wash­ing­ton
Chicago
Los Ange­les
Montreal

Oh, They also have started a blog and you can find out more here.

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