 Chatwin 's name is used to sell <unk> notebooks . Chatwin wrote in The Songlines of little black <unk> @-@ covered notebooks that he bought in Paris and which he called " <unk> " . The quotes and anecdotes he had compiled in these books serve as a major section of The Songlines . In this book Chatwin mourned the closing of the last producer of these books . In 1995 , Marta <unk> read The Songlines and proposed to her employer , Modo & Modo , an Italian design and publishing company , that they produce moleskine notebooks . In 1997 , the company began to sell these books and used Chatwin 's name to promote them . Modo & Modo was sold in 2006 , and the company became known as <unk> <unk> . 
