I really want to love these books, and I would if not for how thin the pages are. Before the Xlarge size came out, I had been using the Large for a couple years but had always thought the page dimensions were a little awkward to fill. These are the perfect size, and would be the perfect notebook in my opinion if the pages weren't so thin. I guess they are just trying to keep the profile thin as a whole, but you can see through not only to what is written on the back of a page, but what is written on the face of the next page.
Having stated this negative, it is the only one I have for this book. It has a soft cover, is plain and unobtrusive looking, and it comes with all the "accessories" I want in a journal: a ribbon bookmark, an attached elastic band to keep it closed, and a folder in the back to put extras in. It also has a good number of pages, and most important for me, comes in this unlined version.
So the book has thin pages but comes closer to perfection than any other notebook I've found. I think with some of us though, the very particular ones, the only way to obtain our idea of a perfect journal would be to make it ourselves. For those in this same demographic that are too lazy to do so, this Moleskine, for me at least, comes close enough.