Common place book ideas

All my life, I learned from my dad that underlining great passages in a book and otherwise marking and making notes does the book great honor. The more of the book is underlined, the better the book, or possibly the better the reader. However, I do not underline library books and

Nicole Barlettano on Instagram: "Keeping a “Commonplace Notebook” - have you done it? Keeping a commonplace book has been on my mind for awhile now, but not in the traditional way - I want to also integrate my own notes, words, feelings and collections in it as well. I was recently inspired to use a hobonichi cousin for this practice from @petite_gloom - we have something in common… the need to keep everything in ONE notebook (the dream) #commonplacebook #commonplacebooks #commonplacejournal…

For some individuals, it’s merely a book of quotes they want to remember and draw upon later.

By Theryn Fleming (Beaver) I love commonplace books; the most recent entry in my own is from the photographer Alfred Stieglitz: Nearly right is child's play. —Michael Dirda When I was eleven, my godmother gave me a hardcover notebook.

November 2015 Procedures of Encounter, or, My Commonplace Log Practice Several years ago I was in a small specialty bookstore and came upon a book with mostly blank pages simply called A Little Com…