Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Moleskine mania

 
Oh, the drama. First, I freak out because I can't get the specific notebook I want. Then my friend/distant relative Erin brings one up from Provo for me. Then I get the one I ordered online (and was too impatient to wait for) so I have two. THEN the one Erin brought up began falling apart, the cover ever so sadly separating from the spine, so I wrote Moleskine and ask/beg for a new one.

Being in Italy (Milan, darling) our correspondence was a bit delayed and with the language barrier a little choppy. However, they very kindly said that, since they're handmade, sometimes these things happen and they'd be happy to send me a replacement if I'd provide my address, which I did.

Long story short, they ended up sending me two replacement notebooks, one with the cover written in Italian and one written in German, in addition to the original one I'd ordered online. While all this was happening, I found some good glue and was able to (mostly) reattach the cover of the original notebook which I'm still using.

I wrote Moleskine, told them they sent me an extra and offered to ship it back to them. They wrote back and told me not to worry about it. 

So now I have four total (three unused) softcover, ruled, pocket-sized Moleskine notebooks when just two months ago there was only one to be found in the entire state of Utah. Crazy how things turn out, huh?

4 comments:

  1. Quite the story! I hope you used PVA to fix it; that's the strongest book glue there is.

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  2. So David...you are planning on giving at least one away to your faithful readers...aren't you?

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  3. Erin - Not sure of the kind of glue. It's worked OK (but not perfectly) so far. Thanks for the comment.

    Brett - Possibly. But it would probably be someone who left a comment on WriteInMyJournal.com saying they'd told all their friends about the site.

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  4. You better start writing a lot!!
    Becky

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