I feel like the Traveler’s Company (fka Midori) notebooks are the rich person’s notebooks. There’s a hint of stealth wealth to them. I get through between three and five Moleskines a year, at between 10 and 15 quid a pop depending on sales and, I dunno, is there surge pricing for notebooks? The Travelers’ Passport size is about the same as a Moleskine, but the fills are only 64 pages. Not convinced how the filled pages could be archived effectively, but I’m also looking at a growing length of Moleskines on the shelf with the dates white-inked on their spines and at current speed I only have eighteen months left before I run out of shelf. Also not convinced Traveler’s Company notebooks could stand up to the volume of material I cut out and glue into notebook pages, from photos to reformatted text documents.

All that said: perhaps Traveler’s Company notebooks, where you pay once for the cover and then just buy the refills, are more sustainable?