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The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper
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"Super interesting, I especially liked the inclusion of reference pictures. It does though focus primarily on Europe. Definitely had me thinking of my own journaling - lined pages can be restrictive!"
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Thanks for the review! Glad you enjoyed it.
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"Interesting history of the notebook. Starting with accounting notebooks from the Italian Renaissance and moving forward through history, the author catalogs different ways that notebooks have been used and why."
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Thanks for this review! Happy to please a stationery fan...
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"This book is right up my alley, and if you love stationery, the feel of specific pens on paper, and reading about how people throughout history kept logbooks, ledgers, diaries, etc. you'll probably love this too."
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Thanks so much for reviewing! Glad you pushed on through.
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" I can't exactly say I liked this book it but the information provided and the way it was presented was compelling enough that I couldn't not finish it. I learned so many things while discussing what originally (to me) seemed like a trite subject. Ro"
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Thanks so much for this review! So glad you found so much to enjoy in the book.
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Hi, Sorry that you dropped this but if you can force on past the introduction you'll find nearly all of the book to be a history of the ways notebooks
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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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