Keith Lowe introduced me to the LevengerCirca notebook a while back. Since my penmanship is so poor, I really wasn’t interested. But, I did need some sort of notebook to carry around, and Levenger has a starter kit that’s attractively priced, so why not try it? I did. I’m hooked!
The main feature: you can put pages in and take pages out and move them around, yet they remain securely in place if you’re not intentionally moving them. You can change covers and move pages from one notebook to another. For a "paper" notebook, they have a lot of the feel of an electronic notebook!
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There’s another rather nice feature. You don’t have to buy the expensive pages from Levenger. If you want to do some page design of your own, fine. Print it, cut the sheets, then use the Circa Punch to put the neat special holes into the pages, and add them in. Pretty much any piece of paper can be added. I've got 3x5 cards inserted. Newspaper Clippings. Coupons. Now I design my own special sheets, print them, cut them, punch them, and I have just what I want.
There is one problem, and that’s the cost of the punch. $58! Or, if you buy two or more, only 48. That seemed a bit steep, so I looked on eBay, and there are quite regularly used ones (actually, new, returned, offered by Levenger). Now here’s a side curiosity for you. A new punch from Levenger is $58, plus about $7 shipping. If you buy one from eBay, the shipping will be $8. So…how much would you be willing to pay to get the punch used, from eBay, rather than buying it new, from Levenger (even though it comes from Levenger either way)? Over and over, I’m seeing them go for over $60 on eBay. I don’t get it
Regardless, I like the notebook, I like the pages I’ve created, and I like the whole concept. I’d love to see some lower-cost accessories, but I guess you just can’t always get what you want. (is that Mick Jagger I hear in the background?)
