“It’s a modest notebook. Adolescent, too. It reminds me of the ones I’d buy when I was in high school in an attempt to inject a little sparkle into the drudgery of math class (no coincidence that there’s a space in the front to write down my name and colegio), albeit with a special eponymous touch. The Jean Book has a thick cardboard cover that could withstand abuse in a knapsack and paper crosshatched with blue lines, essential for giving some order to what one friend at uni called (while cribbing from my lecture notes) ‘your goddamn loopy handwriting’.”
— I wrote a little ode to my Jean Book for Damon Young’s series of blogs about writing tools.
