From the Book - First edition.
Before notebooks: The Mediterranean 1000 BCE - 1250 CE
Red book, white book, cloth book: The invention of accounting, Provence and Florence 1299
Slight strokes in a little book: The sketchbook, Florence 1300-1500
Ricordi, ricordanzi, zibaldoni: Notebooks in the home, Florence 1300-1500
Pepper in Alexandria: The Book of Michael of Rhodes, Venice 1434
Wicked wives and and mouths stopped with wool: The notebook comes to England, 1372-1517
The long life of LHD 244: Singing in harmony, Bologna c.1450-1600
"Alas, this will never get anything done..." : Two notebook-keepers, Italy 1455-1519
O the pains and labor to record what other people have said! : Common-place books, 1512-present
From one mouth to the other runs East and West: The world ocean, 1519-1522
King of the herring: Fishbook, The Netherlands 1570
A dull Dutch fashion: Friendship books, northern Europe 1645
Several gems: Industrial observations, Germany 1598
Let him not stay long: Travellers and their notebooks, 1470-present
The Waste Book: Mathematics, Lincolnshire 1612
A tale of two notebooks: Fouquet and Colbert, Paris 1661-80
But 18 pence in money; and a table-book: Table-books, England and the Netherlands 1520s-1670s
Albetrosses: Logged journey, London to Amoy 1699
I think: Naturalists' notebooks, 1551-1859
One way to immortality: Diaries and journals, 1600-present
You're spot on: Police notebooks, 1829-present
Yes, better if dentist is dead: Authors' notebooks, 1894-present
Preserving and Coockery: Recipe books, 1639-present
Express yourself: Journaling as self-care, 1968-present
Blue, green, red, yellow: Electioneering, Florida 1977-2003
Non-trivial: Climate logs, 1850s-present
Attention deficit: Bullet journaling, Brooklyn 2010
In search of lost time: Patient diaries, 1952-present
Egodocuments: Notebook studies, 1883-present
A different part of the brain: Observing artists, 2022
Conclusion: Otto carries a notebook: The extended mind, 1938-present.
