BookMarc is the Marc Jacobs bookstore on Bleecker St. in NYC. They have a cool selection of old and new books, and some rather nice notebooks: The notebooks are all lined inside, seem to be of pretty good quality, and say they are made by Chameleon Like, Inc. On the company’s website, they offer a … Continue reading Notebooks at BookMarc
A reader named LC tipped me off to this interesting conference happening this coming weekend at Harvard: “Take Note” brings together scholars from literature, history, media studies, information science, and computer science to explore the past and future roles of note-taking across the university. Panelists will discuss the history of note-taking in different disciplines as … Continue reading Take Note Conference
An interesting and amusing article about a talk by Marco Beghin, President of Moleskine US, full of plenty of slogan-y stuff about “mobility,” “self-identity,” and “collective memory.” I’m not sure it answers its own question about what book publishers might be able to learn from Moleskine: Publishers who hope for their catalogs to become as … Continue reading Moleskine Monday: “What Can Moleskine Teach Publishers?”
I first discovered Paperback Note via a link at Better Living Through Design. It later turned out I’d made their creator a notebook addict of the week. It makes perfect sense that Herman would be so addicted to notebooks, he had to start a company to make them! Paperback Notes Notebooks are made of old … Continue reading Review and Giveaway: Paperback Note
Looks like some Hobbit-themed Moleskines are on the way. Read more at The Hobbit Limited Edition Moleskine Notebooks Are Coming Soon.
Lots of news from Moleskine lately– Evernote partnership, going public on the Milan stock exchange, and now custom printed photo books. It’s a great idea– if you love the look of a Moleskine, you’ll love having a photo album with the same design. A 20-page photo book costs $37.50, which doesn’t seem bad, though I … Continue reading Moleskine Monday: Photo Albums
Jean-Claude Ellena, a perfume maker, talks about how he uses a Moleskine notebook: “My tools are test blotters, a pencil, a block of paper and, for a number of years now, a notebook. It was as I approached forty that I started making notes on accords, ideas for perfumes, writing down thoughts, copying out quotations, … Continue reading Moleskine Monday: Perfumer Jean-Claude Ellena on His Notebooks
Cool idea for a sketchbook: gessoing the pages of a vintage book so some of the original print shows through: See more at Oiseaux: Sketchbook.
I love this post about using a Moleskine diary to plan out posts for a book blog: Read more at Fennell Books – Feed Your Book Addiction – Book Reviews & Musings – Blogging Inspiration – Capturing the passion.
The notebook below helped solve a decades-old scientific mystery: who deserved credit for discovering the antibiotic streptomycin? For as long as archivists at Rutgers University could remember, a small cardboard box marked with the letter W in black ink had sat unopened in a dusty corner of the special collections of the Alexander Library. Next … Continue reading The Discovery of Streptomycin Recorded in Lab Notebooks