Moleskine City Notebook Chicago [Hardcover]

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Book Description

Series: Moleskine City Notebook | Publication Date: March 1, 2008

The first guidebook you write yourself.

Chicago is home to more than just jazz and deep-dish pizza. As you wind your way through the Windy City, keep track of your travels in the Moleskine City Notebook Chicago. The Key Map summarizes the overall city layout , showing the sequence and location of the 16 zone maps. Map of the subway system and list of stations, plus the alphabetical street index of the zone maps. Blank pages for jotting down notes and recording your thoughts, stories and memories. 32 removable sheets for loose notes and exchanging messages. 12 translucent sticky sheets for tracing your routes and sharing itineraries. A 96-page tabbed archive for collecting everything that matters most and keeping it at your fingertips. The first 6 tabs are printed; the others await your personalization with the enclosed adhesive labels.

Each pocket sized Moleskine City Notebook is thread bound and has a cardboard bound cover with rounded corners, acid free paper, three bookmarks, an elastic closure and an expandable inner pocket that contains the Moleskine history.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 228 pages
• Publisher: Moleskine (March 1, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 8883708423
• ISBN-13: 978-8883708428
• California residents: Click here for Proposition 65 warning.
• Product Dimensions: 4 x 0.7 x 5.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #688,351 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #25 in Books > Travel > United States > States > Illinois

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Coolest little travel book around, September 23, 2008

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D.Rovillo "d" (Buffalo, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Moleskine City Notebook Chicago (Hardcover)

A++ product, cool little sections to write in names of stores, restaurants and attractions....pockets, maps, stickers....everything you could want in a personalized travel book.

One issue: The maps, although are made to fit inside this compact book, are tiny and difficult to read. On the bright side, the book contains transparency sheets that you can lay over maps and mark up with routes, directions or destination points--cool!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Nice reference even for residents, October 28, 2008

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This review is from: Moleskine City Notebook Chicago (Hardcover)

It's a satisfying and convenient size. Most of the notebook is blank pages, or sections that may be labelled however you wish, making it quite flexible. I especially like the detailed maps and the street guide.

However, neither the maps nor the street guide for Chicago includes the grid system! Even if visitors may not take the time, nor really need, to understand the numbering system, the city guides seem like they are as much geared toward residents as tourists.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Handy, easy to use 'guide'!, September 19, 2011

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A. Berke "chemist" (Madison, WI) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Moleskine City Notebook Chicago (Hardcover)

I've had the Chicago city notebook for a couple years now and I never go to Chicago without it. Part of the reason is that I have collected a fair bit of information about locations of stores and restaurants I've enjoyed, and part of it because I have found it to be so useful. The maps cover the entire lake shore region, from south of the University of Chicago north past Lincoln Park Zoo. The detail in the main 'downtown' area (the loop and Michigan avenue area) is more than enough to make navigating the streets on foot or in a car quite easy.

One anecdote for why I love the Moleskine so much: I was in Chicago a little more than a year ago and was walking between our hotel (Merchandise Mart Holiday Inn) and the Tribune Building area and met a couple of other tourists at a cross walk. They were looking forlornly at their smartphones for a train depot. They asked if I was familiar with the area and where the nearest station was. I pulled out my analog device (the Moleskine!) and showed them the location of their station! Paper: 1, internet: 0.

I wish that the City Notebooks (and in particular, the Chicago one that this review is about) had two additional things though:

1. More map coverage. Coming in from Lake Michigan quickly runs one off the map. I don't need all the way to O'Hare, but another page or so in in some places would be nice. Especially in the Milwaukee Ave. and west Fullerton areas. These are gentrifying quickly and there are really nice restaurants out there that the map doesn't let you chart your way to.

2. Stickers to mark important places on the map. Certainly there are the pages to write in and the tracing paper to chart a route, but nothing is quite a quick as putting a sticker on the map at an intersection so that when you open to that page again you know exactly where the place you're looking for is. I would have appreciated marking my hotel, or particularly good restaurants, or even marking the location of a place I never wanted to forget (and was significant enough to stick on the map). I probably wouldn't use them all the time, but I definitely would use small stickers on the maps.

These notebooks are well-built, easy to use, and I don't travel without checking to see if the city I'm going to has one. In those cases I buy one!