![]() ![]() Now at first I was like, “Why on Earth would anyone want to watch a video of someone talking about a notebook?!” There were around 700 videos in the search results, and it was like I’d stumbled into this crazy cult of journal obsessed people! I really just wanted something simple to read that would tell me what the heck a traveler’s notebook even was and whether or not it’d actually work for me, but I started watching videos… And then I fell down the youTube rabbit hole, and before I knew it, I’d spent around three hours watching videos about notebooks… Mom and Dad got me my first notebook, (the wide Creme), for my birthday, and that’s when I finally got the obsession! Why do I love my traveler’s notebooks? ![]() Story time! I found out about traveler’s notebooks by scrolling through twitter! Another writer had tweeted about how amazing they were for writing journals, and at that point I didn’t have a clue what they were! So what did I do? I Googled! And my friend Google took me to youTube… If you’re not sure about what size you need, Chic Sparrow has a cool chart to help you out! How did I even find out about these things? It just took a little creative adjusting of bands and a couple paperclips! The wide size holds 5 by 8.25 inch inserts, and I have successfully crammed eight notebooks into my Creme with no overhang. The cool thing about my composition size is that it came from the Patina collection, which means that I could get a quote burned into the leather! Here’s a closeup picture of the quote… The composition sized cover holds normal sized composition books, which is great for my purposes because braille is bigger, but it’s also really bulky and probably won’t leave my desk much. You know those composition books with the stitched binding that are pretty much just a bunch of pages folded together into a booklet and can be found pretty much anywhere? Any of those will work as long as they’re the right size for your cover! Chic Sparrow does have inserts, but you can literally go to Staples or Walmart or wherever and get books in the right size. ![]() The notebook inserts are really nothing special. This is a picture of the inside of my notebook… The bands inside the spine are used to hold inserts, which can be notebooks, folders, zip pockets, or a mixture of everything. It has between two and six elastic bands inside the spine, and one elastic band that comes out the back of the spine in a loop than is used to hold the notebook closed. Still have no idea what I’m talking about? I’ll simplify it because I was confused too! So what exactly is this thing called a “traveler’s notebook?”īasically, a traveler’s notebook, (TN), is a piece of leather that folds in half and makes the shape of a notebook, or maybe a three-ring binder. One is a Creme notebook in the color “dark chocolate” and the wide size, and the other is a Patina in the composition size. This post is to explain what traveler’s notebooks actually are and why I love them so much since I’m sure some of you were going, “What the heck is that?” The picture above shows the two journals I currently own. If you read yesterday’s post, you know that I’ve started a collection of traveler’s notebooks. ![]()
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