leather-bound

Especially on OS X where a leather-bound Calendar had to interact with other normal windows.

The green baize in Games Center and the leather-bound notebooks in wherever.

If one Fortune 500 company merges with another, the resulting contracts are thick enough to fill multiple heavy leather-bound volumes the size of major metropolitan telephone books.

Why did I never hear about anyone using a leather-bound location diviner before?

Also, I love collecting all texts (a few rather old leather-bound bibles, late 1800 to early 1900, are some of my most prized possessions).

Interviewing was so much more formal even then (in the NYC area): business casual attire, (p)leather-bound resume folios, expectations of knowing the company, etc.

It's like reading a beat-up cheap paperback copy of The Lord of the Rings and liking it so much you insist your friends buy it as premium leather-bound gold-trim volumes.

Employees are trained to operate such that every situation is governed by a rule/process/procedure, and their job is to look up the situation in a massive leather-bound book of branching rules, see which rule applies in the given situation, and then… apply the rule.

Also I don't have Wal-mart here, but I think you'd be hard pressed to find a cheap leather-bound (or fake leather, I don't know or care which Moleskine use) notebook with 190 pages that aren't pure blinding white, for 15 euro on the official site, or as low as 10 on Amazon.

Sure, given a desire to buy a book, or a watch, one may opt for the embossed leather-bound edition printed with a movable-type press, or the 300-component hand-carved self-winding watch, but the driving point is to read The Hobbit, or tell when to leave work.

Or you could be the guy that walks into meetings, waits until everyone is settled before opening a leather-bound, monogrammed notebook, pulls that same pen out, put elbows on table and slowly unscrews the cap, before setting the pen down on the notepad, without having written a word.

To paraphrase, "In place of science, I present to you a digitally-leather-bound edition of the founding fathers (minus that Jefferson stuff about not being a Christian nation)!

In fact, the law itself is open source--each and every line of "code" is published by the government in volumes of leather-bound books titled "US Code" and the like.