Doctor Who Journals
If you love Doctor Who, these will be right up your alley! My favorite is the one with the blue Tardis door on the cover. Buy at ThinkGeek :: Doctor Who Mini Journal Set (SDCC Exclusive).
Category Archives: Fun & Weird
Papelaria Pastry Notebooks
Cute notebooks that look like pastries! See more at The Terrier and Lobster: Papelaria Pastry Notebooks.
Happy Valentine’s Day, Notebook Addicts!
I’ll never fall out of love…
Hot Tips! And a Cute Cat.
From the mailbag: From Martin & Jeanette: We are a husband and wife team from Kent, England and we hand craft and hand sew our own range of leather notebooks and sketchbooks. Here’s a link to our Etsy site: http://www.etsy.com/shop/LeatherNotebooks From Allison: I thought you’d like these — Peruvian hero notebooks, created by a company … Continue reading Hot Tips! And a Cute Cat.
Moleskine Monday: Analyzing Paper Weight
A reader named Steve commented on my “Dissecting a Moleskine” post with a link to a fascinating inquiry of his own: what is the actual weight of Moleskine paper? Steve points out that many notebook brands make a selling point of their paper weight, expressed in grams per square meter (GSM): • Calepino, 90 • … Continue reading Moleskine Monday: Analyzing Paper Weight
Lost Notebook Becomes a Book
This is a cute story: Earlier this year, Lisa Rao, an editor at Simon & Schuster, saw a segment on Good Morning America moments before she walked into an editorial meeting. “I had my iPad and pulled up the clip and told them, ‘You have to watch this,’ †Rao recalled about a story … Continue reading Lost Notebook Becomes a Book
Can Notebooks Help the Japanese Have More Babies?
Weirdest notebook story of the week: With Japan’s birth rate stuck in low gear, the Abe administration has come up with a new idea to make babies: convince the women to have a child earlier rather than later. It plans to give out notebooks to all young women – and perhaps also to young men … Continue reading Can Notebooks Help the Japanese Have More Babies?
CIA Agent’s Notebook
I’m sure everyone’s seen the news stories about the supposed CIA agent trying to recruit Russian spies in a rather goofy manner. Here’s all his super-secret-agent-y stuff: wigs, cash, weapons… and a notebook! Read more here.
Kevin Barry on the Keeping of Notebooks
This is from my latest favorite essay about keeping a notebook, by Irish writer Kevin Barry, author of City of Bohane: Stationery stores are for me places of huge erotic frisson. I traipse grubbily around the aisles in my long coat and when I think nobody is looking, I have a surreptitious little sniff at … Continue reading Kevin Barry on the Keeping of Notebooks
Fifty Shades of Grey Writer’s Journal
Here’s one notebook I don’t think I need to own, a writer’s journal tie-in to the bestselling Fifty Shades of Grey books by E. L. James: “Fifty Shades of Grey: Inner Goddess: A Journal” is to be published May 1 and is a writer’s journal, seeded with quotes and inspiration from James’ trilogy. Some of … Continue reading Fifty Shades of Grey Writer’s Journal