Top Opening Pocket Lab Notebook

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 [...]

Engineer’s Field Notebook, late 1980s

A couple months ago I posted about the artist David Fullarton and wondered where I could get a notebook like the one he used for his work. Well, it turns out I had only to look in my own collection! The unusual gridded pages appearing in Fullarton’s artwork come from an engineer’s field book like [...]

Dumb Notebook Questions

It amazes me what people will ask on the internet: “Why is European notebook paper in a grid format (i.e. horizontal and vertical lines) instead of simply horizontal lines?“ Someone’s helpful answer: It’s not. I live in Europe (Netherlands), and we have both. There are notebooks with vertical lines, and there are notebooks with grids. [...]

Pocket Sized Doane Paper Notebooks

Cool! I was very intrigued by Doane Paper when I first saw it at The Pen Addict. Now they offer it in pocket notebooks! They measure 3.5 x 5.5″ and sound like they are very similar to Moleskine cahiers, but with the nice combo graph & lined Doane Paper. I wish the cover didn’t have [...]