New entry in my commonplace book. This time I include content about the beginnings of the current alphabet and also about the origin of the word "book." The most important terms are highlighted in blue. The book drawing is painted with watercolor. The notebook used is an A5 Find Flex Note by Kunisawa. The pen is a special edition handle Lamy Safari. The two inks are special for sketching, from the German brand Rohrer & Klingner.

New entry in my commonplace book. This time I jot down interesting content from the book "Philosophy in the face of discouragement". It's written with Lamy Safari pens in black, green, and blue colors. The illustration is a portrait of Seneca. The notebook I use is a Kunisawa A5 Find Flex Note. The drawing is colored with Schmincke watercolors.

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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.

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A commonplace book is described this way: “Commonplace books (or commonplaces) were a way to compile knowledge, usually by writing information into books. Such books were essentially scrapbooks filled with items of every kind: medical recipes, quotes, letters, poems, tables of weights and measures, proverbs, prayers, legal formulas. Commonplaces were used by readers, writers, students, […]

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As the New Year begins, the commonplace book tradition is alive and well, at least as well as any tradition can be that has lived as long a...