Roland Allen 
The Notebook [EPUB ebook] 
A History of Thinking on Paper

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A Globe 100 Best Book of 2024 • A New Yorker Best Book of 2024 • A Kirkus Most Anticipated Book of Fall 2024

The first history of the notebook, a simple invention that changed the way the world thinks.

We see notebooks everywhere we go. But where did these indispensable implements come from? How did they revolutionize our lives? And how can using a notebook help change the way you think? In this wide-ranging history, Roland Allen reveals how the notebook became our most dependable and versatile tool for creative thinking. He tells the notebook stories of Leonardo and Frida Kahlo, Isaac Newton and Marie Curie, and writers from Chaucer to Henry James; shows how Darwin developed his theory of evolution in tiny pocket books and Agatha Christie plotted a hundred murders in scrappy exercise books; and introduces a host of cooks, kings, sailors, fishermen, musicians, engineers, politicians, adventurers, and mathematicians, all of whom used their notebooks as a space to think—and in doing so, shaped the modern world.

In an age of AI and digital overload, the humble notebook is more relevant than ever. Allen shows how bullet points can combat ADHD, journals can ease PTSD, and patient diaries soften the trauma of reawakening from coma. The everyday act of moving a pen across paper, he finds, can have profound consequences, changing the way we think and feel: making us more creative, more productive—and maybe even happier.

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Introduction

Chapter 1: Before notebooks

Chapter 2: Red book, white book, cloth book

Chapter 3: Slight strokes in a little book

Chapter 4: Ricordi, ricordanzi, zibaldoni

Chapter 5: Pepper in Alexandria

Chapter 6: Wicked wives and and mouths stopped with wool

Chapter 7: The long life of LHD 244

Chapter 8: ‘Alas, this will never get anything done…’

Chapter 9: O the pains and labour to record what other people have said!

Chapter 10: From one mouth to the other runs East and West

Chapter 11: King of the herring

Chapter 12: A dull Dutch fashion

Chapter 13: Several gems

Chapter 14: ‘Let him not stay long’

Chapter 15: The Waste Book

Chapter 16: A tale of two notebooks

Chapter 17: ‘But 18 pence in money; and a table-book’

Chapter 18: Albetrosses

Chapter 19: ‘I think…’

Chapter 20: One way to immortality

Chapter 21: ‘You’re spot on’

Chapter 22: ‘Yes, better if dentist is dead’

Chapter 23: Preserving and Coockery

Chapter 24: Express yourself

Chapter 25: Blue, green, red, yellow

Chapter 26: Non-trivial

Chapter 27: Attention deficit

Chapter 28: In search of lost time

Chapter 29: Nothing on this earth betrays our own karakter so

Chapter 30: A different part of the brain

Conclusion: Otto carries a notebook

Notes and references

Image credits

Acknowledgements

Index

Про автора

Roland Allen lives in Brighton. He studied at Manchester University and works in book (and notebook) publishing. He has written books on bicycles and bread, has kept a diary for decades, and enjoys stationery a little too much.

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