You might recognize that white booklet in the second photo (stamped "Frankfurt" on the cover) from a previous post on Koloist here. That post and this one, here, show two different ways these Kolo Essex booklets can be used...

...Patrick Ng just organized Travel Photo Cafe events at c!ty'super and LOG-ON stores throughout Hong Kong. On his blog he's been posting some cool projects from the events, including this one showing Kolo Essex Travel Booklets and a Kolo Newport album, about which he wrote:

One of the cool things about KOLO's refillable travel book called Essex is that you can actually archive the thinner refill onto a larger album. This way you will have an album showing selected photos as well as the actual journal you used when you were traveling.

Some of us like to stick everything collected in a trip to a thicker journal, write a lot and never miss a thing. This creates bulky books and may not be a good sight on a nice clean shelf. KOLO's Essex however invites you to strip things down to the essentials and keep things simple and elegant, just like the usual KOLO aesthetic which brings out your content (photo and text) while the album itself becomes a nice decor.

Travel/Photo journaling style is really a personal choice. I love to create junks and think back later what really happened. On the other hand, I admire clean looks. Perhaps a lot of small/thin refill notebooks filed into a clean album with selected photos is the solution to satisfy both wishes. I'll explore more.

See more at Patrick Ng's blog here and here.