What are the rules around selling and collecting old notebooks that belonged to other people? I’ve recently been wondering about this after seeing certain items for sale on various sites, including a diary with very intimate thoughts and full names included. Nothing was blurred out in the listing, so I was able to google the … Continue reading Vintage Journal Ethics →
I recently came across an article in which the writer celebrates keeping a notebook. But there was one passage that really surprised me: Another thing that makes my notebook unique and interesting is the open access to its pages. While diaries are revered as the fiefdom of one man’s innermost thoughts and deep, dark secrets, … Continue reading A Public Notebook? →
Notebooks, journals, sketchbooks, diaries: in search of the perfect page…