Notebook Addict of the Week: Lemonade Lists
I like this week’s Notebook Addict because you get to see not only the pile of notebooks, but what some of the interior pages look like: Lemonade Lists: I love journals and notebooks..
I like this week’s Notebook Addict because you get to see not only the pile of notebooks, but what some of the interior pages look like: Lemonade Lists: I love journals and notebooks..
All the pen and paper blogs seem to have been buzzing for months about the Rhodia Webnotebook. Fountain pen users in particular were eager to have a Moleskine alternative containing their beloved Clairefontaine paper. When these first hit the market, you could only get a version with 80g paper. Now, finally, the long-awaited 90g paper … Continue reading Review: Rhodia Webnotebook
A thought-provoking quote from Mark Twain: It is a troublesome thing for a lazy man to take notes, so I used to try in my young days to pack my impressions in my head. But that can’t be done satisfactorily, so I went from that to another stage– that of making notes in a note-book. … Continue reading Mark Twain’s Notebooks
So often, I’ll see a really cool image pop up in the Moleskine Flickr pool, and it will turn out to be by Kathrin Jebsen-Marwedel. See her photostream here. She fills each page of a daily Moleskine planner with the most wonderful sketches, and the result is an extraordinary visual journal.
Contest this week, enter by tweeting. See post today for details! # @writershelper Me too! in reply to writershelper # @DIYSara Congratulations! Bet you can't wait to shop for the invitations! :) in reply to DIYSara # Enter the contest to win! http://equ27.tk # Contest for a free notebook continues, another winner will be picked … Continue reading Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-07-18
Last weekend, I read a wonderful novel called Andorra, by Peter Cameron. It’s elegantly and beautifully written, with some lush descriptions, including this scene, which takes place right at the beginning of the book, just after the narrator has arrived to start his new life in Andorra: I decided to visit the stationers. The front … Continue reading The Euphoria of Buying a Journal: Andorra, by Peter Cameron
Here’s one for all you hard-rockin’ notebook fans: A pair of handwritten lyric notebooks (see photo below) by late AC/DC frontman Bon Scott, dating from the late 1970s, was among an array of 300 musical items that went under the hammer at a Christie’s pop memorabilia auction on June 22 in New York. A description … Continue reading Handwritten AC/DC Lyrics Notebooks Sell For $35,000
There was an interesting article a few weeks ago in the New York Times, about electronic tools for note-taking: Bringing Order to the Chaos of Notes: MODERN life is a mess of notes, a tangle of countless scraps of information that we accumulate during our waking hours. In the morning, you attend a meeting with … Continue reading Paper vs. Electronic
Don’t forget that the contest continues today! To enter, follow me on Twitter @notebookstories and tweet this message: Win a cool notebook this week @notebookstories https://www.notebookstories.com Details and notebook review here: Review and Contest: Old Style School Quaderno from Vickerey.
Jackie loves notebooks–here’s her stack: Read more at Letters and Journals.