I used words. I had already finished three notebooks and was into the fourth, a beautiful leather notebook I'd bought in a market in Mozambique.

我已经写了三本笔记，已经开始写第四本，第四本是我在莫桑比克市场买的精美的皮革笔记本。

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

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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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