Cheap, quick and easy to do, Moleskine-like notebook with Clairefontaine paper

Step 7 The end

Now you should have a good looking cool feeling notebook with the features you like.

An additional step you can do if you want is to add a bookmark, like in the Moleskines.
Just glue a ribbon to the cloth spine of the notebook before you glue the cover.

My solution sounds like an clean and easy introduction to bookbinding, the next step would be to bind yourself the leaves of the notebook