Moleskine’s New Kindle Cover
I have a Kindle
The notebook is slightly larger than the Kindle and has the signature Moleskine cover and elastic band for closure. The inside is a totally different story. The interior is covered in a slightly furry suede-like material to keep your Kindle from getting scratched. On the right, there are four elastics that go on each corner of your device to hold it in place. I never think that these elastics will be taut, but these kept my Kindle secure and it didn’t move a centimeter.
On the left is a pocket, in which a thin, reporter-style (top seam) notebook is nestled. I don’t know about you but I sometimes need to take notes when I read. I’m currently reading The 4-Hour Workweek
One thing that I think is missing is a pen loop, but then again, there isn’t one in the traditional Moleskine notebooks. It’s also hard and slightly weighty like a real book, so if you’re carrying around the Kindle to avoid carrying around a hardcover book then this might not be the right cover for you. Don’t get me wrong, though, this isn’t the same as toting around a Dan Brown
Why, o Lord, is the Notebook not located on the right? Taking notes, unless you’re a lefty, requires reaching across the screen so that your arm would obscure the text.
I second your comment, it was the very first thing I noticed as well. The reader/notebook needs to be interchangeable from side to side, or at a minimum the notebook sleeve sewn so that you can insert it from either end. You could flip the whole thing then without having to sew more reader loops.
An excellent concept though, looks really sharp.
Maggie Mason over at Mighty Girl came up with a similar idea back in April. http://www.wepc.com/discussions/view/6295/Stealth_Laptop_for_Writers_Who_Miss_Paper_
Looks like she was on to something.
PS. Hey Moleskin, will you make a small version for iphones next, please?
This scares me. It signifies that the Moleskine brand is looking to expand into more than what they’ve been doing so well forever – notebooks. First, they started slipping in quality (ever so slightly, but still), now this. Kindles are great, Moleskines are great but this?.. Not so sure.
It’s still kind of a notebook.
The comment about having the cover open the other way to facilitate note-taking is spot-on. I wonder if you could simply flip it (cutting a new slit for the pad insert)?
BTW, I’d suggest you read between the lines on the “4 Hour Workweek” – it’s a great hustle by someone who’s working 4 hours a week because the people who his book are underwriting the other 36.
Some good thoughts, but if you dig a bit even Ferriss’ own attempts to do what he’s preaching (outsourcing the handling of Email, for instance) are often catastrophic failures.
Hi, yeah thanks it’s clear that he’s quite the schemer, but there are some handy tips in the book to help me be more efficient and productive. I could never outsource most of what he suggests — it’s ridiculous.
However, he has made me think more about HOW I run my business and I can relate to the excessive number of hours put in and also the ones spent on stuff that really doesn’t matter.
This one is cute!:D
Too bad Kindle came out with a newer version, so no more Moleskine cover.
Any chance of a newer version of this coming out for the newer Kindle models?
(being a lefty I actually like having the notepad on the left…)