Notebook Stories

The blog All Women’s Talk features a variety of cute and colorful notebooks, including these: See more at 8 Fab Notebooks to Write in ….

Here’s something that struck me as unusual: a top-opening lab notebook. It looks a bit like the Book Company lab notebook I reviewed, but that was side opening, as is every other lab notebook I’ve seen. Also, this one is different in that the pages are printed on only one side, which might appeal to [...]

Here’s a look at a couple of notebooks I couldn’t resist buying at Kinokuniya, a store in Manhattan that specializes in books, movies, stationery and other Japanese items. The first is a quite unique notebook, made by Pilot and branded “THE-II” on the front. The cover is a very retro leather-textured plastic: But here’s what [...]

I’m coveting the latest book from poet Anne Carson, called “Nox”– it’s a beautiful slip-cased accordion fold-out, reproducing collaged journal pages she made in memory of her dead brother. Read more at Amazon: Nox

Here’s a new brand of notebooks from Japan that I hadn’t heard of before, available at Need Supply Co. I like the stripped-down, utilitarian look. Found via StreetLevel.com. (Also spotted at Uncrate.com, via The Pen Addict)

A funky Japanese notebook, available online from a UK retailer: A fabulous notebook to record “notes for my daily life”. Designed by Japanese company Mark’s Inc., it has a smooth bright orange cover and comes with an elastic closure band to keep your book safe in your bag. It has 300 lined pages each headed [...]

The readers of this blog continue to challenge my notebook wisdom, proving again that I’m more of an enthusiast than an expert. But maybe others will have suggestions, so I share these with all of you: From Bobby: I’m trying to find a notebook that is “normal” sized ~8.5×11 and is cream/light green colored like [...]

For sale on Etsy! From the listing: This is old store stock from a now defunct shop, and is in BEAUTIFUL CONDITION! Each pad has 60 sheets, and measures 6″ x 9″ – the perfect size for all of your stenographic needs! And that cover art is just TOO MUCH! More at VINTAGE notebook STENOGRAPHER [...]

As I’ve often mentioned here, I’m a fan of Piccadilly’s little black notebooks. I’ve probably bought 8-10 of them by now and I have used 4 of the small ones as my daily notebook. I haven’t paid as much attention to the rest of their product line, but when I saw the small Primo Journal [...]

I liked the look of this slipcased set of notebooks: From the product description: The design of this set of three notebooks is adapted from works by the German artist Marcel Odenbach (b. 1953). The notebooks are packaged in a stylish slipcase, each notebook has a different cover and contains either 64 blank, lined or [...]