Moleskine City Notebook Barcelona
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Manufacturer: Moleskine
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Binding: Paperback
Brand: Moleskine
Dewey Decimal Number: 914
EAN: 9788883706158
Feature: Each notebook has an elastic closure, 228 pages, with up to 44 pages in colours and have a sewn binding. There is an inside accordion pocket and three ribbon placemarkers, each in a different colour. 9 x 14 cm (3 1/2 x 5 1/2").
ISBN: 8883706153
Label: Moleskine
Manufacturer: Moleskine
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 228
Publication Date: 2008-01-01
Publisher: Moleskine
Studio: Moleskine
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Features
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Each notebook has an elastic closure, 228 pages, with up to 44 pages in colours and have a sewn binding. There is an inside accordion pocket and three ribbon placemarkers, each in a different colour. 9 x 14 cm (3 1/2 x 5 1/2").
The Key Map summarizes the overall layout of the city, showing the sequence and location of the zone maps. Each book includes a map of the metro system and list of stations.
Up to 36 pages of zone maps, ranging in scale from 1:5,000 to 1:17,000 with large-scale maps of the city center, and an alphabetical street index.
Up to 76 blank pages, giving you all the space you need to write, jot down useful information, and record your thoughts, stories, and memories.
32 removable sheets for loose notes and for exchanging messages. 12 translucent sticky sheets, to overlay and re-position, so that you can trace your route as you go. A personal, 96-page archive, with 12 tabs in two series of 6, so that everything that matters most is at your fingertips. The first 6 tabs are printed; the others are blank so you can personalize them with the enclosed adhesive labels.
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Editorial Reviews:
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The first guidebook you write yourself.
Whether you are viewing GaudÌ's architecture relaxing on the city's many beaches or watching a football game the Moleskine City Notebook Barcelona is a trusty travel companion. The Key Map summarizes the overall city layout showing the sequence and location of the 12 zone maps and the 2 maps of the city center enlargement. Map of the metro system and list of stations plus the alphabetical street index of the zone maps. Blank pages for jotting down notes and recording your thoughts stories and memories. 32 removable sheets for loose notes and exchanging messages. 12 translucent sticky sheets for tracing your routes and sharing itineraries. A 96-page tabbed archive for collecting everything that matters most and keeping it at your fingertips. The first 6 tabs are printed; the others await your personalization with the enclosed adhesive labels.
Each pocket sized Moleskine City Notebook is thread bound and has a cardboard bound cover with rounded corners acid free paper three bookmarks an elastic closure and an expandable inner pocket that contains the Moleskine history.
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Tiny book, tiny print... less useful than if could have been
Comment: When I first received my copy of the Barcelona Moleskin City Book, I emailed the seller and asked if perhaps I had received a bad press run, because the typography on the first few pages was really faint and difficult to read. The response was that apparently the designer had chosen a lighter gray color ink for pages that contained information such as Measurements and Conversions, Metro Station Index, Transport, etc. As a result, you have to tilt the book to catch the light properly in order to read the entries, not exactly something you really want to be struggling with while standing on a street corner looking lost.
Fortunately the text on the maps is easier to read-- but many of smaller placas and carrers in the Old City are not identified so you will be wandering around lost, even with your these maps in hand.
Finally, the book is 3 1/2 inches by 5 1/2 inches, meaning that while it fits into your pocket, you might want to bring a magnifying glass along if you expect to read any of the 14 sectional maps for the city. I would have preferred something a bit larger-- perhaps the next size up moleskin book. I'll probably carry it with me, now that I own it, but I will also buy a real map.
BTW, the exterior stripe-- which is green for this book-- is nothing more than a removable paper wrapper.
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Summary: A Do-It-Yourself Travel Notebook
Comment: This is a very unusual product and I would strongly encourage anyone considering getting one to be completely aware of what it is before they purchase it. First, if you are looking for a single travel guide to prepare you for your trip to New York (or anywhere else there is a guide for), this is very close to worthless, if not entirely worthless. I would call one's attention to the title of the product. It is a "Notebook." That means that most of the pages are blank. This literally is a book for taking notes in.
So what do you get when you buy this? Every book in the series follows the same format. First there is a personal information page with address, phone, allergies, family doctor, passport number, then map information with public transportation maps. Then follows information on the various forms of transportation with phone numbers and websites, including cabs, buses, other forms of public transportation, and airports. There are some blank itinerary pages, measurement and speed conversion charts, size conversion charts (for shoppers), then a long series of neighborhood maps, including an index. And that's it. The final two-thirds of the notebook are blank. The next 20 or so pages are completely blank and unlined for whatever use you want to put them to. Next come several pages intended for writing down names of restaurants, bars, museums, historical sites, hotels, or whatever. The book also comes with unlabeled tabs with stickers to use as desired (for theaters, concert halls, or whatever you desire) as well as tracing paper for, as the label says, "Itineraries or Whatever." Finally, there is the usual pocket at the back that is found in all Moleskine products.
For some people this is going to be an absolutely useless product. But for many this will be remarkably useful. In fact, I can envision two uses for this notebook. First, those who are planning a trip to one of the places for which Moleskine has produced a book. Let's say one has consulted the Blue guide, the Eyewitness Guide (by DK), a Rough Guide, the Michelin guide, and the Let's Go guide. Maybe you've bought all of these, making for five guides. No way do you want to drag all of these on your trip or more than one on your flight. So what might you do? You might take the Moleskin Notebook, record into it all the places you want to see, restaurants you want to dine at, museums you want to stroll through, and anything else you want to do while in your destination of choice, and record it there. So the Moleskine City Notebook can serve as a distillation of all the various travel guides, web sites, and other resources you have consulted. And instead of hauling about a large Fodor's guide, you can carry about this small Notebook that can easily fit into a backpack, purse, should bag, or even pocket.
The only downside is that the Moleskine City Notebook is only as good as you make it. If you do a good job of planning your trip, it will be filled to the brim with useful and helpful information. If not, it will be as unhelpful as you have made it.
There is a second use to which the City Notebook can be put to use, though it is not one for which it was primarily designed. You could use it for the city in which you live, should you live in one of the cities for which one is made. I live, for instance, in Chicago. I have bought one of these so that I can over time use it to record every bit of helpful information that I might find useful or helpful. I can record what hours the Seminary Co-Op Bookstore (the real one, not the trade version on 57th Street) is open. The hours for the Chicago Public Library and the Newberry Library. Phone numbers of restaurants and addresses of bars. And so on and so forth. Granted, these books will only benefit those who live in one of those cities, but for the U.S. New York, Chicago, Boston, Washington D.C., Seattle, San Francisco, and Los Angeles are pretty populated areas.
So this is a very well conceived product though it absolutely has to be stressed that it is a specialized one. Please note: THIS ISN'T FOR EVERYONE. If you don't want to use the Notebook to plan your trip it is going to be very close to worthless. I'll emphasize again: this is only as good a product as you make it. But if you use it to help you plan your trip, it could be the single item you would most loathe to be without after your notebook.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Fantastic Book
Comment: I have traveled quite a bit and always take blank books (and a glue stick! for tickets/photos, etc.) This book is GREAT...however, it is a tad bit small. The maps are extremely useful and the little clear post-it sheets are a great idea. It is very well made and lasts.
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