Moleskine Livescribe Notebook Ruled Black Large Stationery – June 24, 2015

I am a pen and paper person. I find it is easier for me to remember and understand things when I physically write them down. I have tried other digital alternatives but this works the best for me as it is a nice blend of digital and physical. I enjoy being able to navigate the LIvescribe app by just touching the designated areas in the journal with my pen. This came in very handy at a recent 2-day conference I attended. I highly recommend.

The Moleskin shop near my work no longer carries these notebooks so when I ran out, I was so happy to see the notebooks available on Amazon. i was able to sync it with my Livescribe pen and instantly I had a notebook! Thank you Amazon!

Exceeded my expectations. Paper and Livescribe 3 pen works perfectly. Tried other digital pen and paper combinations - this one works the best.

Quality product, pity about the Livescribe+ application though, it needs an overhaul to do justice to thesmartpen and to products like Moleskine.

Perfect for the Livescribe 3

Thanks.

The Moleskine notebooks are hands-down the best notebooks for the Livescribe pens. The quality of the binding is better, the quality of the cover is better, and the quality of the paper and printing are better than is true for the Livescribe-branded notebooks of approximately the same size. This is the notebook you really, really want to use with your Livescribe pen for the best experience.That said, there are also some irritating problems that leave me at a mere four stars rather than five.1) You'll have to upgrade the firmware on any older pen to be able to use these. This sounds innocuous, but anyone that has been using Livescribe equipment for a while (and I've been using it since the release of the original Pulse pen over a decade ago) knows that any firmware upgrade seems to have about a 50-50 chance of killing a pen entirely, and that's no fun because in the Livescribe world, replacing a pen means not only cost but also a fragmentary notebook situation in software, since each pen has a different database of notebooks. When you replace one, you end up with a notebook filed half under one pen, and half under another (or many such split notebooks, if you work on many notebooks at a time).2) There are only two. There are four black Livescribe-branded notebooks and two red Livescribe-branded notebooks, which gives a working population size of 6 notebooks at this size. For the Moleskine notebooks, you're stuck with a maximum of two notebooks that you can work in at any one time. The only workaround is to get two pens and pair each to two notebooks, etc., which becomes an administrative headache as you try to track which pens belong to which notebooks.3) They're expensive. I know, I know, it's Moleskine and the price is correlated to the positive things that I said about these notebooks earlier. Even so, $30 for a notebook is hard to swallow. It just is. You're basic spiral-bound notebook at the local store can be had for $0.50 during back-to-school season. A high-quality notebook with a hard cover like this one should cost more, but it's hard to deal with it costing 60 times more. You can walk into a bodega or convenience store and buy an entire low end Android phone for less than the price of this notebook. At the end of the day, it's paper, and paper is cheap. You're getting great workmanship, sure, but it's not like these are made by Milanese craftsmen or something. At the end of the day, you're also paying an awful lot for branding here.But with that out of the way, if you can afford it and cope with the logistical complications, these are hands-down the best notebooks on offer for any digital pen, and so good that they make it worth choosing Livescribe over Neo pens, despite the relative advantages of Neo pens, simply to gain access to two these particular notebooks at a time (instead of just one, which is all you get with Neo).

Says it's the large one, even has the listed dimensions of the larger notebook, but it's really the small one. I'll be returning it... AGAIN.