Pens, not pixels -- Moleskine notebooks make hard copy cool and gift-buying easy

Moleskine, the Italian company dedicated to the propositon that real notebooks don't need batteries, is expanding its wildly popular offerings in 2010 with a new range of products.

Supermarket stationery doesn’t come this classy.

— Moleskine distributor Arnault Castel

Moleskine's new line of Passions notebooks is designed to appeal to the pursuits of its users.

The Recipes notebook, for example, includes sections that allow aspiring chefs to copy food and wine pairings. Other Passions notebooks are designed for book, movie, wine, music and wellness buffs. Each has sections for scribbling down everything from bits of trivia to brilliant thoughts.

The 13 x 21cm, gunmetal gray notebooks will be available in March 2010 and retail for about US$25