Paperback Notebooks
These look pretty cool: Paperback Notebooks at Better Living Through Design. The covers are made of old second-hand books, rather than just reproducing the art.
Category Archives: Writing Notebooks
Moleskine Monday: Dash and Lily’s Book of Dares
“Dash & Lily’s Book of Dares” is a new novel by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan, the authors of “Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist.” In the book, two teenagers write messages to each other in a red Moleskine: Dash stumbles across a notebook that Lily leaves on a shelf at the Strand. He quickly solves … Continue reading Moleskine Monday: Dash and Lily’s Book of Dares
Graphic Image Leather Journals & Notebooks
Here’s some nice looking leather bound journals– they’re not cheap but they can be personalized and would make a nice gift: Graphic Image Leather Journals & Notebooks. I particularly like that travel journal with color maps in the back!
Eddy’s Three Journals
I stumbled across this blog post by Eddy, who shows off some photos of his journals, and talks about how he uses them: Since I started using notebooks, I’ve kept all of my projects in one notebook, instead of using multiple notebooks for multiple projects. Usually I have had only a couple of things going … Continue reading Eddy’s Three Journals
Notebook Addict of the Week: The Writing Tree: I *heart* Notebooks
This blogger/writer/photographer says “I *heart* notebooks!” What a colorful collection… More photos at The Writing Tree: I *heart* Notebooks.
A Turkish Grandmother’s Notebook
I’ve been reading Orhan Pamuk’s fascinating book Istanbul: Memories and the City. It’s an interesting mix of city history and personal memoir, and here’s a passage I had to share: “My grandmother always kept with her a slim leather-bound notebook in which she wrote something every day. This notebook, in which she recorded bills, memories, … Continue reading A Turkish Grandmother’s Notebook
“The Importance of Having a Crap Notebook”
Here’s an interesting take on notebooks that I have to quote at length: I don’t like fancy journals. Hardbound is great for books, but when it comes to things I write in, spiral bound please. No fancy covers – though hard covers can be nice when you write on the road a lot. No fifty-dollar, … Continue reading “The Importance of Having a Crap Notebook”
Notebook Addict of the Week: AntSaint
Do you type up things you write in your notebooks? This week’s addict does, or at least tries to! But he hasn’t gotten through the entire backlog of this collection: A notebook first found its way into my pocket in 1995. I was a college freshman, a gumshoe at the college newspaper. One night at … Continue reading Notebook Addict of the Week: AntSaint
Moleskine Monday: Tao Lin Sells His
An amusing tidbit from a Salon post about Tao Lin, an up and coming writer described as “the next big thing in urban hipster lit.” Among his unusual marketing stunts are things like selling shares in the future profits from his novels, and putting odds and ends like drawings, notes and unpublished story drafts up … Continue reading Moleskine Monday: Tao Lin Sells His
The Manly Tradition of the Pocket Notebook
The Art of Manliness blog muses on the long tradition of keeping a notebook: The idea of carrying around a pocket notebook has become quite popular these last few years, revived by the introduction of the current incarnation of the “Moleskine†into the market. It’s become so popular that I’m afraid it has come to … Continue reading The Manly Tradition of the Pocket Notebook