I'm a big fan of Moleskine journals, and I've never found a book journal yet that's satisfied me. So as soon as I saw this I knew I wanted one. Unfortunately this book doesn't look up to the premise.
The book information pages don't have enough open space for me to structure my own notes, I'd prefer far fewer fill-in-the-blank categories. I only need title, author, date read, and maybe publication year, the other things are unnecessary at best. If I ever cared to note the nationality of the author, original language of the book, or awards it won (in the cases where any of those apply), I could easily do so in a more reasonably sized notes section. Including fields for so many specific (and often rarely-used) categories is a waste of valuable page space.
The alphabetical tabs in the book pages are a terrible feature. I read over 150 books last year, and none of them started with X. I didn't read any X authors, either. I read only one book that began with V, but 25 S books - which is more than the journal could hold. Those small tabs are also not a very sturdy option, several of mine are bent already after less than a week of fairly gentle use. The pages are numbered, so it would have been easy to just let those who need quick access to specific book pages create their own index or table of contents using some of the blank pages. Then everyone would have been free to list their reading by their own preferred method, such as reading date, genre, or subject, rather than making us all deal with alphabetical organization.
I liked the section at the back that lets us create our own tabs, because many book journals are too structured. While the Moleskine falls into that trap on the book detail pages, I'm happy that it lets us create some of our own sections at the end. For example, many journals include pages for book club notes or shop addresses even though I don't need those. With the tabbed sections, people who want those sections can have them, but I'm free to use my nice, blank pages for shopping lists, loan tracking, and drafting reviews longer than the book detail pages allow for.
The three bookmark ribbons are a great feature, but I could do without having book titles that don't really reflect my taste stamped into the cover. The cutesy colored stickers are also unnecessary. If Moleskine creates an updated version with no alphabetical tabs and a freer book page layout, I'd buy at least one copy a year for myself and probably give several as gifts. But the current organization is to limited for me to consider it for long-term use.