I have always carried a little spiral bound, shirt- pocket sized notebook in my purse; it's forever losing pages, or the spiral wire catches on something. I wound a small rubberband around it in an attempt to maintain it's integrity, to no avail. It looks ratty and unprofessional in mere weeks. Moleskine has been my choice for a small portable sketch book for years, so when I saw this little Reporter Notebook, I knew it would be sturdy, attractive, discreet and long lived. I love that, like all Moleskines, it has an elastic band to keep the cover closed, a gusseted pocket in the back for loose papers and ruled lines to keep my scribbling on track.