The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper

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A Globe 100 Best Book of 2024 • New York’s Best Book of 2024 • Crux’s Most Anticipated Book of the Fall

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

We see notebooks everywhere. But where did these indispensable tools come from? How did they revolutionize our lives? And how can using a notebook change the way you think? In this extensive history, Roland Allen reveals how the notebook became our most reliable 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 small pocket books and Agatha Christie plotted a hundred murders in exercise books. and introduced a host of chefs, kings, sailors, fishermen, musicians, engineers, politicians, adventurers and mathematicians, all of whom used their notebooks as a place 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 a patient diary can soften the trauma of reawakening from a coma. He finds that the everyday act of putting pen to paper can have profound consequences, changing the way we think and feel: making us more creative, more productive—and maybe even happier.

ASIN : B0D3R76WBZ
Publisher: Biblioasis
Accessibility: Learn more.
Date of publication: 30 August 2024
Language: English
File size: 35.9 MB
Screen Reader: Supported
Enhanced Typesetting: Enabled.
X-Ray: Active
Word Wise : Enabled
Print Length : 540 pages
ISBN-13 : 978-1771966290
Page Flip: Enabled
Best Sellers Rank: #5,003 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store) #1 in Cultural Anthropology (Kindle Store) #3 in History of Ancient Early Civilizations #6 in Modern History (16th-21st Centuries)
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