Best Minimalist Leather Cover for Field Notes & Moleskine
CestAntiQ Leather Journal Cover: Honest Review (No Sponsors)
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I finally bought my first leather journal cover, and in this video I take a close look at the CestAntiQ minimalist cover for Field Notes and Moleskine. This is a simple one‑slot design with clean stitching, real leather, and no chemical smell. I show how it fits a 3.5×5.5 notebook, how the pen loop works, and how cards or small slips fit inside without making it bulky.
I also point out a small abrasion on the leather that came from stitching, but it doesn’t affect durability or use. This cover feels solid, minimal, and practical — exactly what I wanted. I also show the current Amazon price and explain why the leather feel and aging process make this a great everyday carry item.
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🕒 Timestamps:
00:00 Intro & First Look
00:20 Stitching, Leather Feel & Build
00:55 Small Abrasion on the Leather
01:25 Fitting Field Notes & Moleskine
02:50 Price & Amazon Listing
03:50 Final Thoughts
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This is the best leather journal cover for fill notes. Hello everyone this is Amit Dhan. I just
bought my first leather journal cover and today we're going to take a look at it and we're going
to take a quick look at inside and I'll tell you how it feels and whether this is a good buy or not
and what is the brand. This is CEST NTQ journal cover for fill notes and you can see that the
reason I like it this is very minimal and the stitching looks fairly good and the leather is
like you know a really genuine leather. There's no bad chemical smell or anything and here you
can see that it has only one pocket or one slot so I wanted something very minimal and you can
see that everything feels like you know durable and there is even one pin loop right here. I'm
going to show you how a Moleskine car here looks like when I when you put it inside. Now the only
one minor thing I noticed that there's a little bit abrasion right here or like you know it looks
like something peeled off so let me see if a camera can catch it. So if you take a look at it very
carefully you can see there's a little bit of here and very little bit of here. I don't think it's a
big deal it looks like to me probably when they were stitching it they just rubbed it with something
and that's why it happened but except that it's very solid very minimal very good looking and
let's try to fit in a Moleskine car here and we're going to take a look how it looks. So I inserted
Moleskine car here and you can see that it fits very nicely this is 3.5 by 5.5 and you can see
there's still a little bit space left so you might be able to fit in something like you know a little
more or less but it fits a very nice way and let's put in the Parker Jotter right here and see how
it goes. Okay so here how it looks like Parker Jotter and I'm going to just put in one credit
card and see how it looks inside too. So you have a Tim Hortons gift card and it looks like you know
it's very smooth but also you can put in some other stuff too for example your boarding pass
slips receipts or anything small. I didn't want like you know too many pockets or too many things
kind of like you know making it bulky so this is just a perfect blend in between everything.
Now in terms of pricing this is about like you know 40 dollars regular price around like you
know 35 to 40 but sometimes it goes on sale. I do not do any affiliated links or like you know
no paid or a sponsorship or no nothing so this is what you're looking at just honest
but I'm going to show you this Amazon how it looks like. So this is what it looks like and
as you can see right now actually they're running a sale for 24.59 Canadian but when I bought it I
think it was like 33 or 39 in that range so it's like you know between 35 to 40 dollars I'd say
it's a real price but right now they have a good sale but probably it's very like you know short
time but this is the name CEST NTQ and this is the first time I'm trying a leather journal cover
and the main reason is that you know it kind of inspired me to you know write more because of the
feeling the touch the experience everything of leather and as you keep using leather more and
more it ages perfectly and it gets better and better and also there's the like you know
unbelievable leather smell which I cannot stop smelling it feels very nice and very good smell
so overall I'm happy with the product I cannot really find anything to complain about except
the minor like you know uh erosion right here and right there but I think that's minor that's not
going to affect anything and this is my first leather journal cover for pocket fill notes
so thank you for watching and I'll see in the next video