I'm really happy that Moleskine finally started making softcovers with different colors.  I use these for sketchbooks and I'm really happy that I can finally have one in my favorite color instead of plain black.  My only issue with this notebook as opposed to previous softcover notebooks I've bought is that the binding seems particularly stiff, so stiff in fact, I had to flip through the book to ensure that it was actually stitchbound and not just straight glued.  I buy these because I can easily fold the front cover back onto the back cover while drawing (without the annoying metal spiral binding and the smudging that happens to pages in those sorts of sketchbooks), but that's a bit hard to do with this one.  I'm sure it'll ease out with use, but it still seemed stiffer than ones I'd bought in the past.