I love Moleskine. That smooth, off-white, plain non-lined paper is just pure joy. But it’s frickin’ expensive. I won’t waste hard-earned money on an expensive notebook that I will just doodle on. Being the cheapskate that I am, I turned to Instructables.com (your one-stop-DIY-shop).

Here it is — make your own Moleskine-ish notebook

And here’s a more detailed HowTo on how to bookbind by hand a Moleskine.