Continuing to celebrate my 10th anniversary, today I thought it would be fun to revisit some of the very first “Notebook Addict of the Week” posts and see if their collections have grown over the last decade.
Here is the very first addict from November 2008, whose name is Lane. Unfortunately her blog no longer seems to be public so I can’t see if there’s any updates to her collection:
I love notebooks. I love blank pages, ready to absorb new thoughts. I love filled notebooks as proof that I did think.
Her collection:
Addict #2 was the blogger at Walking Butterfly, featured on November 20, 2008. Her blog went quiet in 2012 and I didn’t see any other posts about notebooks:
“I’m a journal junkie” writes this blogger. Here’s just a part of her collection:
Addict #3, also in November 2008, was Belinda Hollyer, who continues to blog as recently as March 2018, but doesn’t seem to have any updates on her notebook collection.
Here’s what Belinda has to say for herself:
If I ever had to stand up in a meeting and confess an addiction, I know what I’d say.
“My name is Belinda and I am addicted to notebooks.â€
I have a stationery problem, no doubt about it. But the truth is, I’d never want to ask for help in overcoming this. I have no wish to give up my addiction. I’m completely enthralled by it.
Well, this was a little anticlimactic in terms of showing any notebook collections that have vastly grown in size over the last 10 years! Are there any readers out there who were previously featured as addicts way back when who would like to give us an update on their collection? Leave a comment or shoot me a message!
Have you chosen winners for your giveaways yet?
I keep a Google Sheets Spreadsheet to keep track now. I own over 805 notebooks. Of which 756 have not been filled up completely, or at all. I have numbered that ones I have written or drawn in and they total up to 103 in use and 73 completely filled up for a grand total of 176 notebooks with words or drawings in them. Phew! Keeping track like this has helped me stop buying them so frequently.
I don’t go too far back — you featured my addiction in Oct. 2014 — but my handbound sketchbook collection has definitely grown! Earlier this year, I blogged about how I had to get new bookcases to house them all: http://tina-koyama.blogspot.com/2018/03/shelved-and-tidy.html
You also featured the sketches I make in Field Notes (July 2016), and I’m still doing that, too. Thank you for featuring me and for continuing to show so many addicts and their collections! I enjoy seeing them all.
Just want to say that I love your blog! I enjoy reading your reviews on the lesser-known notebooks. Sometimes when I try to look up information on a notebook that is not sold in the US, your blog is the only place where I find information. So thanks and keep up the good work!
Hi Nifty! I am a previous notebook addict and my collection has grown a lot! I actually haven’t been able to fit them all into a video or photo because they are in multiple bookcases. I have over 200 filled, now ^.^
I recently did a live show with all my completed moleskines, it’s on my youtube channel. I’m doing weekly flip throughs, too, trying to show then all eventually, lol