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Saturday, June 21, 2008

Weekend Project: Turn iPod Touch into Moleskin

Image: iPod Touch in a Moleskin book, via Wired

This is a pretty neat thing to do to any mobile device. Granted, I think it would be more helpful if you kept some pages and then used it as a bit of ink-based reminder system, but I guess this works too.

..That's fine, but the little iPod gets uncomfortable to hold after a while, and it lacks the presence of a real book. Imagine seeing an attractive girl (or boy) sitting outside a pavement cafe, drinking an espresso, smoking a Gauloise and reading a tatty paperback. It's a romantic image which is shattered when you swap the book for a PDA. I decided to disguise my iPod as a book, and if that wasn't pretentious enough, I put it in a modded Moleskine, the notebook of choice for fops and dandies the world over. Follow along to see how it turned out...

Read the entire article at Wired Magazine

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Labels: iPod Touch, Moleskin, reading