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The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper
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"As a lifelong notebook fanatic I adored this book and the exploration of thinking on paper in all its forms.
Highlights include the impact of notebooks on commerce and art, the Old Weather project and the rise of the bullet journal at a time when tech" Read more of this review » |
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"This was a delight and a pleasure to read - one of those 'I got it from the library and now I need a persona copy to go back to again' books. Full of fascinating information, intriguing connections, book history, art history, world history, financial"
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"absolutely love it. Allen writes in way that makes the subject so interesting and connects great thinkers, artists.etc to use and evolution of the simple practice of keeping a notebook"
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Yep, tangents - guilty! Glad you enjoyed it, though!
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“Leonardo knew that the best way to look at something analytically is to draw it. Water fascinated him, so he drew”
― The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper
― The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper
“And take a note… with slight strokes in a little book that you should always carry with you… preserved with great care; for the forms, and positions of objects are so infinite that the memory is incapable of retaining them, wherefore keep these sketches as your guides and masters.”
― The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper
― The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper
“People who are under stress, who are worried about stuff – that’s taking up their working memory,’ he tells me. ‘They’re not paying attention to what they’re doing, where they are going, so they’re more likely to have injuries, or do poorly on tests, and so forth.”
― The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper
― The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper
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