He scribbles furiously, filling up five pages of a black leather notebook that he carries everywhere.

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He always carries a black leather notebook so he can scribble down new molecular structures as they float into his mind.

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Finally, the "Note" comes wrapped in a leather binder to give it an old-skool notebook look and feel, and supports writing with a stylus to continue the theme.

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