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45 They're, well, notebooks --- things I find amusing, outrageous, strange or otherwise noteworthy. notes towards works-in-glacial-progress. hemi-demi-semi-rants. things I want to learn more about. lists of references. quotations from the Talking Heads where appropriate. If you can help with any of these, I'd be grateful. if you can tell me of anything I can profitably prune, I'd be even more grateful. There is a list of frequently asked questions (FAQ), along with answers, and a colophon, which explains more than anyone would want to know about how these pages are put together. If your question isn't answered in either place, feel free to write, though, sadly, I can't promise a timely reply. ---Cosma

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If your notebook is putting out too much heat and you find yourself wishing for a few more USB ports, Belkin wants to help you keep your cool. The new Laptop Cooling Hub is a slight update on their classic model a raised platform with a fan imbedded to help cool down a hot laptop. It now features four USB ports to give it a little extra bang for your buck. But how does it perform under pressure?

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The Dell Latitude E6500 is a 15-inch business laptop designed to survive a full day of use and abuse. and look good while doing it. The magnesium alloy construction, rugged paint finish and tough metal hinges make the Latitude E6500 more durable than older Dell notebooks. As impressive as that all sounds, what do actual users think? Keep reading to find out what one owner thinks of his new purchase.

This year at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas Sony stunned the world with the introduction of the VAIO P. This ultraportable notebook with an 8-inch screen fits inside your jacket pocket or your purse and packs an amazing amount of technology inside a tiny package. However, potential buyers and the press were also stunned when Sony announced the price would be $900 when slightly larger netbooks with similar specs cost half as much. Is the new Sony VAIO P an overpriced toy or an extraordinary travel laptop that's worth every penny? Let's take a closer look.

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This article is about the writing pad. For the mobile version of a computer, see Laptop. For the Windows application of a similar name, see Notepad. For other uses, see Notebook (disambiguation).

A notebook (also notepad, writing pad, drawing pad, legal pad, etc.) is a book, usually of paper, of which various uses can be made, including writing, drawing, and scrapbooking. Notebooks can be distinguished along several dimensions and sub-dimensions.

Principal types of binding are padding, perfect, spiral, comb, sewn, clasp, disc, and pressure, some of which can be combined. Binding methods can affect whether a notebook can lie flat when open and whether the pages are likely to remain attached. The cover material is usually distinct from the writing surface material, more durable, more decorative, and more firmly attached. It also is stiffer than the leaves, even taken together. Cover materials should not contribute to damage or discomfort. It is frequently cheaper to purchase notebooks that are spiral-bound, meaning that a spiral of wire is looped through large perforations at the top or side of the page. Other bound notebooks are available that use glue to hold the pages together. this process is commonly referred to as "padding".

Today it is common for pages in such notebooks to include a thin line of perforations that make it easier to tear out the page. Spiral-bound pages can be torn out but frequently leave thin scraggly strips from the small amount of paper that is within the spiral, as well as an uneven rip along the top of the torn-out page. Hard-bound notebooks include a sewn spine, and the pages are not easily removable. Some styles of sewn bindings allow pages to open flat, while others cause the pages to drape. Variations of notebooks that allow pages to be added, removed, and replaced are bound by either rings, rods, or discs. In each of these systems the pages are modified with perforations that facilitate the specific binding mechanism's ability to secure them. Ring-bound and rod-bound notebooks secure their contents by threading perforated pages around straight or curved prongs. In the open position, the pages can be removed and re-arranged. In the closed position, the pages are kept in order. Disc-bound notebooks remove the open or closed operation by modifying the pages themselves. A page perforated for a disc-bound binding system contains a row of teeth along the side edge of the page that grip onto the outside raised perimeter of individual discs. Pages can be added or removed at any time by peeling the perforations away from each disc.

Notebooks used for drawing and scrapbooking are usually blank. Notebooks for writing usually have some kind of printing on the writing material, if only lines to align writing or facilitate certain kinds of drawing. Inventor's notebooks have page numbers preprinted to support priority claims. Many notebooks have graphic decorations. Personal organizers can have various kinds of preprinted pages.

Artists often use large notebooks which include wide spaces of blank paper appropriate for drawing. Lawyers are also known for using rather large notebooks known as legal pads that contain lined paper (often yellow in color) and are appropriate for use on tables and desks. These horizontal lines or "rules" are sometimes classified according to their space apart with "wide rule" the farthest, "college rule" closer, "legal rule" slightly closer and "narrow rule" closest, allowing more lines of text per page. When sewn into a pasteboard backing, these may be called composition books, or in smaller signatures may be called "blue books" or exam books and used for essay exams. In contrast, journalists prefer small, hand-held notebooks for portability (often called reporters' notebooks), and sometimes use shorthand when taking notes. Scientists and other researchers use lab notebooks to document their experiments. The pages in lab notebooks are sometimes graph paper to make it easier to plot data. Police officers are required to write notes on what they observed whilst on duty, to do this they use a Police notebook. The most common notebooks are Mead, Staples, and Five Star.

Since the late 20th century, many attempts have been made to integrate the simplicity of a notebook with the editing and searching abilities of a computer. Laptop computers began to be called notebooks when they reached a relatively small size in the 1990s, but they did not have any special note-taking ability. Personal digital assistants (PDAs) came next, integrating small liquid crystal displays with a touch-sensitive layer to input graphics and written text. Tablet PCs are considerably larger and provide more writing and navigation space. after the first flat calculator-like PDA was made in 1978. Digital paper combines the simplicity of a traditional pen and notebook with digital storage and interactivity. By printing an invisible dot pattern on the notebook paper and using a pen with a built in infrared camera the written text can be transferred to a laptop, mobile phone or backoffice for storage and processing.

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Dedicated to Moleskine, the legendary notebook of Van Gogh, Chatwin, Hemingway, Matisse and Céline. Find out about Moleskine notebooks, where you can buy them online with free delivery and see pictures and info to help find the right note book for you. Learn more →

Featuring all the refinements of a regular Moleskine®, but with a soft yet sturdy cover, these new Notebooks slide easily into every pocket. Life is a journey, carry your Moleskine with you every step of the way. Available in pocket, large or extra large sizes the Soft cover notebooks feature a soft cover and all pages are thread bound on acid free paper. They are ideal for students, creative artists or professionals. The notebooks have an elastic closure and expandable inner pocket made from cardboard and cloth, which contains the Moleskine history.

For every traveller who has any taste of his own, the only useful guidebook will be the one which himself has written~ Aldous Huxley, AuthorPull out a travel guide from your bookcase. What's missing? It may look pretty comprehensive— attractions, safety advice, local customs etc. It may even have a few local phrases at the back. What's missing is your own thoughts, stories and memories. Wouldn't it be nice to have a way to go over your own travels in your memory and your imagination? Introducing the Moleskine City Notebook. Your personal scrapbook, city guide, planner and map all in one. Each Notebook features a key map, along with 36 pages of high quality zone maps, which provide a large scale view of the city centre. Useful tabs keep details of hotels, shops and attractions at your fingertips.

Business and Leisure travellers alike will find it invaluable on return visits. Can't remember that fantastic creperie you visited in Paris, chic boutique in Milan or friendly bar in Dublin? Slip out your Moleskine City Notebook and the information is there in an instant! Put quite simply, the more you use it, the more valuable it becomes…

A Moleskine City Notebook is a great way to keep explore and keep a record of your own City. All your favourite places, addresses, stories and memories at your fingertips. It's city life in your pocket.

In addition to the 12 European Cities on sale Moleskine have recently added City Notebooks for the USA. New York, Boston, Washington and San Francisco have all been welcomed to the range and Montreal, Miami, Los Angeles, Chicago versions will be arriving soon. Watch this space.

Packed into the 9x14cm notebook is a sate of the art positing system. Translucent sticky sheets are included to overlay on the map. Mark your favourite points and trace routes as you go! A classic example of the best and most elegant solution being the simplest. Even better—no annoying voice telling you to make a left hand turn down a one way street!

All the hallmarks of a Moleskine product are in evidence, from the elastic closure, sewn binding, accordion pocket and three ribbon place-markers, each a seperate colour. By focusing what information is actually useful for us as travellers and providing a way to record and index it all in in a sturdy, compact book, a Moleskine City Notebooks is the perfect example of how form and function can combine to create a product with outstanding utility. The simplicity and beauty of each wonderfully crafted notebook will bring romance and enchantment to even the most boring of business trips!

The Independent have today include a piece on "The Ten Best Notebooks" in the extra supplement. And which notebook was recommended as the number one best buy? You guessed it—Moleskine. That's no surprise to us, or the thousands of loyal users around the world. Here's what they had to say. Moleskine was the choice of Picasso, Hemingway and Chatwin. This pocket-sized book contains box frames for drawing storyboards. Unleash your creativity.~ Ruchi Patel (The Independent)The Storyboard Notebook mentioned in the article is available to buy for only £8.99. To see all the Moleskine styles, head over to the styles page.

Moleskine are little black notebooks and diaries that have been the notebook of choice for many famous writers, artists. Writers like Bruce Chatwin who used Moleskine to record ideas and notes while on his travels and even Vincent Van Gogh would use Moleskine for his sketches and water-colours.

Tennessee Williams’sNotebooks, here published for the first time, presents by turns a passionate, whimsical,.

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When Acer first introduced its Gemstone Blue range of notebooks early in 2008, most people were immediately taken by the dark-blue-fading-to-black glossy lid, and it was only when the lid was opened that there were groans.

One of the three recently launched Portg series notebooks, the A600 is an ultra-portable laptop that is the slightly heftier brother of the R500 series. The latter, in case you didn't know, is the world's lightest.

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A couple of years ago, HP's PSG (Personal Systems Group) came up with the marketing slogan The Computer is Personal Again', under which a whole raft of interesting and stylish PCs and notebooks were launched. Now.

Samsung's latest 12.1-inch notebook, the NP-Q210 (NP-Q210-AS02UK), is also the first true Centrino 2 model we have seen. Centrino 2 (codename Montevina) is Intel's delayed evolution of the original Centrino technology, featuring a new line-up of.

This collection offers access to the four Walt Whitman Notebooks and a cardboard butterfly that disappeared from the Library of Congress in 1942. They were returned on February 24, 1995. The Thomas B. Harned collection of the Walt Whitman papers spans the period 1842 to 1937, with most of the items dated from 1855 to 1892. It was donated in 1918. The collection consists of correspondence, poetry and prose manuscripts, notes and notebooks, proofs and offprints, printed matter, and miscellaneous items, laminated and boxed in seven containers, and supplemented by one manuscript box of ancillary material. A detailed description of the Harned collection has been published in the Library of Congress publication

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Darwin recorded his observations in a series of field notebooks. (available online here). Towards the end of the voyage he also began to use them to record theoretical speculations, especially on geology and the formation of coral reefs. The

Before a new series of notebooks for theoretical work, termed notebooks on geology, transmutation of species and metaphysical enquiries by the editors of the definitive edition.

And depicts the branching system of descent with modification which Darwin realized could explain the relationship between different species in the same class or family. The most ancient forms are at the bottom and their descendants branch off irregularly. The lines with a crossed end are existing species and those without represent extinct species. By the early 1840s the notebooks were largely finished. Darwin adopted a new system of note taking. He filed notes on particular subjects in particular folders or portfolios. He then cut many of the pages out of his old notebooks and filed them in the portfolios. The number of portfolios seems to have increased over the years of his research before he published his theory of evolution by natural selection in

In 1859. Notebook A. Geology ( us. ). Image CUL-DAR127.- Notebook B. [Transmutation of species ( us. )]. Text ImageText image CUL-DAR121.- Notebook C. [Transmutation of species ( us. ]. Text Image Text image CUL-DAR122.- Notebook D. [Transmutation of species ( us. )]. Text Image Text image CUL-DAR123.- Notebook E. [Transmutation of species ( us. )]. Text Image Text image CUL-DAR124.- Torn Apart Notebook ( us. ) [An aggregate of ms pages as explained in F1817] CUL-DAR-TornApartNotebook Image Notebook M. [Metaphysics on morals and speculations on expression (1838)]. Image CUL-DAR125.- Notebook N. [Metaphysics and expression ( us. )]. Image CUL-DAR126.- Questions experiments [ us. ]. Image CUL-DAR206.1 Reproduction permission could be obtained only for early transcriptions.

Darwin on man..together with Darwin's early and unpublished notebooks. Transcribed and annotated by Paul H. Barrett

Notebook N Old and useless notes Essay on theology and natural selection Questions for Mr. Wynne Extracts from B-C-D-E transmutation notebooks Barrett, P. H. ed. 1960. A transcription of Darwin's first notebook [B] on 'Transmutation of species'.

De Beer, G. ed. 1960. Darwin's notebooks on transmutation of species. Part I. First notebook [B] (July 1837-February 1838).

2, No. 2 (January). 23-73. Text Image Text image F1574a [Since superceded by F1817] de Beer, G. ed. 1960. Darwin's notebooks on transmutation of species. Part II. Second notebook [C] (February to July 1838).

2, No. 3 (May). us. TextImageText image F1574b [Since superceded by F1817] de Beer, G. ed. 1960. Darwin's notebooks on transmutation of species. Part III. Third notebook [D] (July 15 to October 2nd 1838).

2, No. 4 (July). us. TextImageText image F1574c [Since superceded by F1817] de Beer, G. ed. 1960. Darwin's notebooks on transmutation of species. Part IV, Fourth notebook [E] (October us. July 1839).

2, No. 5 (September). us. TextImageText image F1574d [Since superceded by F1817] de Beer, G., Rowlands, M. J. eds. 1961. Darwin's notebooks on transmutation of species. Addenda and corrigenda.

2, No. 6 (October). us. TextImageText image F1574e [Since superceded by F1817] de Beer, G., Rowlands, M. J. and Skramovsky, B. M. eds. 1967. Darwin's notebooks on transmutation of species. Part VI. Pages excised by Darwin.

The Sector Notebook series is a unique set of profiles containing information for specific industries and governments. Unlike other resource materials, which are organized by air, water and land pollutants, the Notebooks provide a holistic approach by integrating processes, applicable regulations and other relevant environment information. The Compliance Assistance Centers are looking for your input on the information and services they provide. Suggest improvements.

About the Notebooks Each Notebook brings you comprehensive, details gathered in a single source and includes.

Industry Sector Notebooks Spanish - Notebooks that have been translated into Spanish are marked by a double asterisks (**). Profile of the Agricultural Chemical, Pesticide and Fertilizer Industry (2000) Profile of the Agricultural Crop Production Industry (2000) Profile of the Agricultural Livestock Production Industry (2000) Profile of the Aerospace Industry (1998) Profile of the Air Transportation Industry (1997) Profile of the Dry Cleaning Industry (1995) Profile of the Electronics and Computer Industry (1995) ** Profile of the Fossil Fuel Electric Power Generation Industry (1997) Profile of the Ground Transportation Industry (1997) Profile of the Healthcare Industry (2005) Profile of the Inorganic Chemical Industry (1995) ** Profile of the Iron and Steel Industry (1995) Profile of the Lumber and Wood Products Industry (1995) Profile of the Metal Casting Industry (1997) Profile of the Metal Fabrication Industry (1995) (html) ** Profile of the Metal Mining Industry (1995) Profile of the Motor Vehicle Assembly Industry (1995) Profile of the Nonferrous Metals Industry (1995) Profile of the Non-Fuel, Non-Metal Mining Industry (1995) Profile of the Oil and Gas Extraction Industry (1999) Profile of the Organic Chemical Industry 2nd Edition (2002) Profile of the Petroleum Refining Industry (1995) Profile of the Pharmaceutical Industry (1997) Profile of the Plastic Resins and Man-made Fibers Industry (1997) Profile of the Printing Industry (1995) Profile of the Pulp and Paper Industry, 2nd Edition (2002) Profile of the Rubber and Plastics Industry, 2nd Edition (2005) Profile of the Shipbuilding and Repair Industry (1997) Profile of the Stone, Clay, Glass and Concrete Industry (1995) Profile of the Textiles Industry (1997) Profile of the Transportation Equipment Cleaning Industry (1995) Profile of the Water Transportation Industry (1997) Profile of the Wood Furniture and Fixtures Industry (1995) Government Series The government series of notebooks provides government officials information they need to comply with the environmental regulations that apply to their activities. Profile of Local Government Operations (1999) Profile of Federal Facilities (1996) Profile of Tribal Government Operations (2007)

Data Refresh The Sector Notebooks Data Refresh presents the latest available Toxic Release Inventory (TRI) release and transfer data and compliance data for most of the Sectors covered in the Notebooks series. Data are not provided for Sectors that are not required to report to TRI or that cannot easily be defined by Standard Industrial Code.

Obtaining Copies You can access an electronic copy of a notebook by selecting the title listed above. Printed copies of each notebook also are available free of charge from EPA's document warehouse, the National Service Center for Environmental Publications. The full set of notebooks containing more than 35 industries and government operations is also available under EPA Publication Number 310-R05-04SET. Be sure to search by the EXACT title or EPA publication number. Once documents are out of stock they will not appear in the data system and cannot be back ordered Printing If you have trouble printing these documents, your printer's memory may be insufficient. If this is the case, printing only small portions of the document at one time may correct the problem. For the best resolution, documents published after 2001 should be printed on Postscript printers, otherwise some illustrations may be blurry.

Posters are also available (see obtaining copies above). Future Notebooks No new notebooks are planned. EPA will consider revising existing volumes or creating new notebooks as priorities change. Questions or Comments If you have questions or comments about the Industry Sector Notebooks Project contact. Sector Notebooks Coordinator Compliance Assistance and Sector Programs Division phone. (202) us. fax. (202) us. Sector Notebooks Coordinator. (2224A) U. S. EPA 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC us.

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Select Lenovo notebooks carry the Energy Star 4.0 label attesting to their superior energy efficiency. Lower your operating costs, while reducing energy use and heat emissions.

Select IdeaPad Y710 and Y730 models feature a GameZone keypad with large directional buttons and user-defined keys for online gaming. A secondary display keeps you up-to-date on system performance and e-mail without breaking away from your game. Explore all the gaming options and accessories available for your IdeaPad notebook.

Anyone who's got a few years under their belt, like myself, will be well aware that the concept of a basic, portable computer with solid state storage and no moving parts is nothing new. About ten years ago I did a significant amount of my writing on a Psion Series 5, which was laughably referred to as a PDA. In the Series 5, Psion created a device so usable, that I was able to write entire features on it while sitting on the train. The company then pushed the boundaries even further when it launched the Series 7 and eventually the NetBook. What Psion got right with its machines was a balance of essential functionality, small form factor and great battery life. As time moved on, though, fully fledged notebooks became smaller and lighter and end users wanted to run feature rich (read bloated) operating systems on their mobile computers. All this spelled the end for Psion hardware (although it did spin off its EPOC OS as Symbian), and for a long time we simply didn't see machines like the Series 7 and NetBook. Thankfully Asus realised that there was room in the market for a basic, affordable machine that didn't need to run the latest version of Windows - thus the Eee PC was born.

Anyone who's got a few years under their belt, like myself, will be well aware that the concept of a basic, portable computer with solid state storage and no moving parts is nothing new. About ten years ago I did a significant amount of my writing on a Psion Series 5, which was laughably referred to as a PDA. In the Series 5, Psion created a device so usable, that I was able to write entire features on it while sitting on the train. The company then pushed the boundaries even further when it launched the Series 7 and eventually the NetBook. What Psion got right with its machines was a balance of essential functionality, small form factor and great battery life. As time moved on, though, fully fledged notebooks became smaller and lighter and end users wanted to run feature rich (read bloated) operating systems on their mobile computers. All this spelled the end for Psion hardware (although it did spin off its EPOC OS as Symbian), and for a long time we simply didn't see machines like the Series 7 and NetBook. Thankfully Asus realised that there was room in the market for a basic, affordable machine that didn't need to run the latest version of Windows - thus the Eee PC was born.

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Intro Gateway first released its FX series notebooks bringing powerful gaming notebook prices down to an afordable level vs. desktop PC pricing. Gateway hopes to bring powerful business and school notebooks to users at an afordable price with the Gateway T-series. With a powerfull 2.0Ghz Core 2 duo, and 4GB of DDR2 this notebook is sure to help you get all your work done without breaking a sweat. Full Specs. Gateway T-6836 Intel Core 2 Duo Processor T5750 (2.0GHz, 2MB L2 cache, 667MHz FSB) Intel Centrino Processor Technology Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit w/ Service Pack 1 Intel GM965 Chipset 14.1 Ultrabright WXGA TFT display (1280x800) Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X3100 w/ up to 384MB of Dynamic Video Memory 4096MB DDR2 667MHz Memory, Dual Channel (2x2048MB) 250GB 5400RPM SATA Hard Drive 8x Multi-Format Dual Layer DVDRW w/ DVD-RAM with LabelFlash Technology 5-in-1 Digital Media Manager Intel PRO/Wireless 3945 802.11a/b/g Ethernet, 56K modem 1.3 Megapixel Webcam 3 USB ports 6-Cell Lithium Ion Battery Metal Precision-Touch Multimedia Buttons Microsoft Works 9.0 Microsoft Office Home Student 2007 (60-day trial) 1 Year Warranty (Tech Support / Parts / Factory Labor) Pacific Blue chassis $649.99 ~ $799.99 @ Best Buy Whats in the Box. When your T-series arrives youll find it in Gateways cow spotted box. Inside the box you will find the notebook, power supply, phone cable for dialup, setup guide, starter guide, Gateway restore disk includin.

As with many scientists, Linus Pauling utilized bound notebooks to keep track of the details of his research as it unfolded. A testament to the remarkable length and diversity of Dr. Pauling's career, the Pauling Papers holdings include forty-six research notebooks spanning the years of 1922 to 1994 and covering any number of the scientific fields in which Dr. Pauling involved himself. In this regard, the notebooks contain many of Pauling's laboratory calculations and experimental data, as well as scientific conclusions, ideas for further research and numerous autobiographical musings.

To lose a passport was the least of one's worries. To lose a notebook was a catastrophe'. -- Bruce Chatwin

For two centuries now Moleskine (mol-a-skeen'-a) journals have been the legendary notebook of artists, writers, intellectuals and travelers. More popular than ever, Moleskine notebooks possess stylish minimalism and unmatched quality. This century new legends are being created with the help of this modest book. Moleskine journals help in daily life, work and play, at home and traveling the world. This is the journal that has been as it remains today a truly reliable friend - always at the ready. Helping in life - helping create and capture life stories.

• Soft Cover Notebooks • Sold as set of 3 • Side stitched binding • Last 16 pages detachable • Back pocket • 4 Cover Colors (Black, Blue, Red, Kraft)

Lenovo IdeaPad notebooks are perfect for home and personal use, with distinctive designs and features ideal for entertainment and multimedia.

Intel Centrino Pro processor technology All Lenovo notebooks can be equipped with Intel Core2 Duo processors, with some offering Intel Centrino Pro technology that combines the latest processors, next-generation chipsets and advanced wireless technology

Models for home officeLenovo offers notebooks - including the new ThinkPad R61i and our new IdeaPad line - ideal for the home office.

Energy Star 4.0-compliant models Our latest notebooks meet the new, tougher US federal energy standards.

This solid professional notebook is just 1.95 kg light with a 12.1.-inch screen, making it the perfect travel companion

Productivity wherever you decide to work, with excellent connectivity in a 14.-inch professional notebook weighing in at 2.3 kg

Always connected with reliable performance in a convenient 15.4-inch professional notebook weighing in at 2.7 kg

For customers who are looking for eXtra productivtiy features and brilliant graphics. A 15.4-inch notebooks weighin only 2.7 kg

A complete line of advanced notebook PCs ranging from powerful desktop replacements to highly mobile and ultra-portable notebooks.

Cutting-edge, high quality notebook PCs sold exclusively in Japan. A wide range of products are offered to suit individual needs. Please note that FMV-BIBLO PCs are designed and sold exclusively for the domestic Japanese market only. Service support or repair is available only in Japan. No courier service is available for repairing the FMV product while it is outside Japan unless having any particular contract.

With a little bit of care, you can maximize the battery life (i. e. the time your battery will run before it must be recharged) and lifespan of your notebook's battery. Most importantly, use your Apple notebook in its comfort zone for temperature (See Notebook Temperate Zone). Dont leave it locked in a hot trunk during the summer.

Notebook Temperate Zone. Your Apple notebook works best from 50 to 95F. You should store them in places with temperatures of -13 to 113°. Thats 10 to 35C and -25 to 45°, for the metrically inclined. Keeping your Mac as near room temperature as possible (22C) is ideal.

For proper maintenance of a lithium-based battery, its important to keep the electrons in it moving occasionally. Apple does not recommend leaving your portable plugged in all the time. An ideal use would be a commuter who uses her MacBook Pro on the train, then plugs it in at the office to charge. This keeps the battery juices flowing. If on the other hand, you use a desktop computer at work, and save a notebook for infrequent travel, Apple recommends charging and discharging its battery at least once per month. Need a reminder? Add an event to your desktops iCal.

If you don’t plan on using your notebook for more than six months, Apple recommends that you store the battery with a 50% charge. If you store a battery when it’s fully discharged, it could fall into a deep discharge state, which renders it incapable of holding any charge. Conversely, if you store it fully charged for an extended period of time, the battery may experience some loss of battery capacity, meaning it will have a shorter life. Be sure to store your notebook and battery at the proper temperature. (See “Notebook Temperate Zone.”)

For Apple notebooks with removable batteries — such as the MacBook, MacBook Air, and 15-inch MacBook Pro — a properly maintained battery is designed to retain up to 80% of its original capacity at 300 full charge and discharge cycles. You may choose to replace your battery when it no longer holds sufficient charge to meet your needs. The built-in battery in the new 17-inch MacBook Pro is designed to retain up to 80% of its original capacity at up to 1000 full charge and discharge cycles. The battery in the 17-inch MacBook Pro should be replaced only by an Apple Authorized Service Provider.

10.6 WXGA AveraBrite display, 1.1 GHz Centrino processor (AV1050), awesome looks and an amazingly low price for this 3.6 lb. subnotebook.

A super-small notebook that maintains usability. Available with Windows XP or Windows XP Tablet Edition.

A sleek looking 12 notebook with a fast processor, DVD burner and a tablet option with touch screen.

A sleek thin and light notebook that weighs 4.3 pounds. Fast 1.7 GHz Centrino machine with 13.3 XBRITE display and dual layer DVD burner.

The smallest traditionally designed notebook in the US weighs only 2.76 lbs. yet backs a heck of a lot of features into a sexy carbon fiber frame.

A designer notebook that boasts carbon fiber, amazing good looks, reasonable power in a razor-thin design. Pricey but elegant.

The ultra-slim notebook for those who can't spend 4 grand on the Vaio X505. Costing less than $2,000 it weighs only 2.4 lbs. and has a Centrino processor.

Most Powerful 15.4-inch Notebook Ever Core 2 Extreme CPU, 9800M GT Graphics, 1200p Resolution Starting at.

All I can really say is that I've never been so impressed with the performance of a notebook computer."

That's all it takes to realize what makes a VAIO notebook special. With unrivaled attention to detail and style that always makes a statement, each series features a unique blend of textures and colors that can't be ignored.

Superior craftsmanship, cutting-edge technology and an eye for style. From sturdy cylindrical hinges to glowing power buttons, functional beauty and ingenious design always come standard. Every VAIO notebook maintains Sony's world-renowned reputation for bold innovation and exceptional quality.

Take it all with you. Whether you're a traveling executive or a creative professional that needs constant access to your media, VAIO has a solution. Weighing as little as 1.4 pounds with beautiful widescreen displays that maximize workspace, there's a VAIO notebook that's perfect for you.

Science notebooks can be used to help students develop, practice, and refine their science understanding, while also enhancing reading, writing, mathematics and communications. On this site you will find examples of student work from science notebooks - many from common used commercially developed science instructional materials, information to support the use of science notebooks, and strategies to use notebooks to integrate reading, writing, mathematics, and science.

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Why would I want to use Google Notebook? With Google Notebook, you can browse, clip, and organize information from across the web in a single online location that's accessible from any computer. Planning a trip? Researching a product? Just add clippings to your notebook. You won't ever have to leave your browser window.

How do I get started? Simple. Just sign in to the Google Notebook homepage with your Google Accounts username and password, then download the Google Notebook browser extension (if you haven't already). As soon as you restart your browser, you'll see a Google Notebook icon in the bottom-right corner of your browser window. Click on this icon to open your mini Google Notebook, where you can save all the clips of content you want.

Can I view my Google Notebook in a bigger window? Absolutely. While the mini Google Notebook allows you to save clips of information without leaving the webpage you're on, you can organize and review your notebooks most easily in the full-page view. To access the full-page view, just click on the Open in full page link in your mini Google Notebook, or log in directly at www. google. com/notebook. If you are using the Firefox browser, you can also pop out the mini notebook, using the arrow icon in the titlebar. This enables you to view and edit your notebooks in a movable and re-sizable window, without having to go to the full-page view.

What can I do in the full-page view? In the full-page view, you can organize your web clippings and bookmarks, add your own notes and comments, and search over all your notebook content. You can also share your notebooks with others by inviting them to collaborate with you or by publishing your notebooks to the web.

Why do I need to download a browser extension? Downloading a browser extension enables you to use the mini Google Notebook. The mini Google Notebook allows you to clip information from the web without ever leaving the page you're on. You'll never again need to toggle between windows, or copy and paste info from your browser window to another application.

What browsers does the Google Notebook extension support? To take advantage of Google Notebook's full functionality, you'll need one of these up-to-date browsers.

How do I add clippings to a notebook? To add clippings to your Google Notebook, just right-click on the text, image or link you want and click Note this (Google Notebook) from the menu. You can also highlight text or images on any webpage, and click on the star button in your mini notebook. You can also quickly clip Google search results by clicking on the Note this link at the bottom of any search result.

How can I create a bookmark? Bookmarks are created using the Google Toolbar. You can view bookmarks, add comments to them, and move them into notebooks, just like any other note in Google Notebook.

Can I add my own comments to clippings? Yes. Just click the Comment link below the note you want to add a comment to. You can then add your own comments, which will follow the note wherever it goes. In the mini Google Notebook, click on the note first to show the comment region and the Comment link.

How can I organize my notes? You can organize your notes quickly and easily from the full-page view. Add section headings within a notebook by clicking the New note button and then on the add section link, or rearrange your notes by dragging and dropping them from one section to another (or even from one notebook to another).

How do I add a label to a note? To add a label to a note or bookmark, just click on the Add labels link below the note you want to add a label to and then type in a label name. In the mini Google Notebook, click on the note first to show the Add labels link.

How do I rename a notebook? In the full-page view, just click on the Tools button, then select Rename notebook.

How do I delete an entire notebook? You can delete an entire Google Notebook using the full-page view. Simply click on the title of the notebook you'd like to delete in the left menu, and select Delete notebook from the Tools drop-down menu. Confirm your request, and you're done.

How can I view all my notebooks? From the mini Google Notebook, click the small triangle along the left side of the notebook window. Google Notebook will display a list of all your notebooks with their respective sections. Also, at any time, you can visit the full-page view to access all your notebooks.

Can I access my notebooks from multiple computers? Yes. That's one of the best parts about Google Notebook. You can access your notebooks from any computer at any time. Simply log in to your Google Notebook account from www. google. com/notebook. This will give you access to the full-page view of your notebooks. And if the notebook extension/add-on is installed on the computer you're using, you can use the features of the mini Google Notebook, too.

Can I export my notebooks? Yes, you can export any notebook to Google Docs. There, you can edit your notebook as a document, collaborate with others, or publish it to the world. The Export to Google Docs command can be found in the Tools drop-down menu in the full-page view.

What is the Unfiled notebook? The Unfiled notebook allows you to collect webpages without having to pick a specific notebook to put them in first. We've also integrated with Google Bookmarks, so that all of your bookmarks show up as Unfiled notes. If you bookmark new pages, they'll automatically be added to the Unfiled notebook. If you move a link from another notebook into Unfiled, it will show up in your Google Bookmarks.

If I move or delete a link from my Unfiled notebook, what happens to it? If you move a link from your Unfiled notebook to another notebook or delete a link, it will no longer appear as a bookmark in the Google Toolbar, iGoogle, Web History, or search result pages. You can move them back into the Unfiled notebook or restore them from the Trash to make them appear as a bookmark again.

How can I share my notebook with others? Just click on Sharing options in the top-right corner, then you can.

Invite collaborators. Let others add and delete content in your Google Notebook by inviting them to edit. If you invite someone who doesn't have a Google account, we'll help them set one up.

Create a public webpage. Publish your notebook to the web, allowing the public to view your notebook's content. We'll include your notebook in Google's search results -- and you can send your notebook's web address to your friends.

How can I share my bookmarks with others? Move the bookmarks that you want to share into a notebook and then share that notebook.

How can I revoke access to a shared notebook? You can revoke a collaborator's access by removing them from your list. If you've created a webpage for your notebook, you can click on the No radio button, which will unpublish your notebook and remove it from Google's search results.

If I decide to unpublish my notebook, can others still see it? If you unpublish a notebook, we'll remove it from our search results within a few days.

If someone shares a notebook with me, can I remove it from my notebook list? Absolutely. Just click on Sharing options in the top-right corner of your notebook, then click on Remove this notebook. To regain access to this notebook, you can reuse the link provided in the invitation email.

How do I access Google Notebook from my mobile device? Just enter www. google. com/notebook/m in your phone's web browser to log in to your account.

Can I create a notebook from my mobile device? No, you can't create a new notebook from your mobile device, but you can add a note to your Mobile notes notebook or to an existing notebook.

Are my notebooks private? Rest assured that your notebooks will remain private unless you publish them to the Web or invite collaborators. To learn more about how we protect your privacy, check out our Privacy Policy at

Why do some public Google Notebook results take me to a 404-error page? This will happen when the owner of a public Google Notebook has chosen to make it private again.

How do I uninstall the Google Notebook extension from my computer? You can uninstall the Google Notebook extension from your browser at any time. If you're using Firefox.

Where can I discuss Google Notebook with other users? You can ask questions and share your expertise with others in our Google Notebook discussion group. Please note that Google doesn't moderate this forum.

NVIDIA CUDA technology CUDA technology lets consumers tap into the massive processing power of the GPU to make video and photo editing operations up to 20 times faster. Business professionals and designers can tap into CUDA as a personal supercomputer speeding up analysis from hours and days down to minutes. Learn More. Notebook DriversNVIDIA® is making it easier than ever to get the most capability and performance from your notebook. NVIDIA Hybrid SLI® technologyNVIDIA’s multi-GPU technology delivers advanced features that extend battery life and enhance performance by combining a motherboard GPU with a discrete GPU. NVIDIA SLI technologyEquip yourself with an NVIDIA® SLI® PC for next generation DirectX® 10 games. Are you ready?

Optimized PCA CPU keeps your PC running, but only an NVIDIA® GeForce® GPU brings your PC’s visuals to life. Optimize your PC, and get GeForce today. NVIDIA PureVideo® HDPureVideo® HD technology – delivers the ultimate HD movie experience on a notebook using less power for longer battery life

NVIDIA notebook graphics processing units (GPUs) provide visual solutions for every notebooks from small thin and light systems to, desktop replacements, for consumer notebooks, businesses notebooks, and mobile workstations. With NVIDIA CUDA technology built into NVIDIA GeForce notebook GPUs, applications such as video and photo editing, run many times faster. NVIDIA Quadro notebook GPUs are essential for design professionals on the go.

NVIDIA GeForce Notebook GPUs There is a GeForce notebook GPUs perfect for every budget and entertainment need. Whether you are a hard core gamer on the go, a creative video enthusiast, or just enjoy web based social networks, an NVIDIA GPU improves your visual experience with crystal clear visuals, lightning fast responsiveness and unmatched application compatibility. CUDA technology taps your GPU for more than just gaming to speed up more visual applications. PureVideo HD technology delivers flawless video playback and Hybrid SLI puts two GPUs to work to enhance notebook battery life and performance. Learn More Find out how NVIDIA GPUs have improved other people’s experiences (

From the creators of Make & Craft Magazine comes the Maker's Notebook. Put your own ideas, diagrams, calculations & notes down in these 150 pages of engineering graph paper. We've also included 20 bonus pages of reference material, from useful stuff like electronics symbols, resistor codes, weights and measures, basic conversions and more, to really useful stuff like the amount of caffeine in different caffeinated beverages and how to say "Hello, World!" in various computer languages. The covers of this hardcover book are printed in cyan "Maker" blue with a white grid debossed front and back. Grab one today!

Bonus for MakerShed customers only. every notebook comes with our custom stickers and band, created just for Maker Faire!-While Supplies Last!

Extreme temperature capabilities include hard drive heaters, solid state hard drives, and hybrid hard drives with enhanced operating temperature range. Our hybrid drives withstand extreme high and low temperatures without the power requirements of hard drive heaters. Hybrid extreme temperature drives provides larger capacity and better cost effectiveness than solid state drives. Rugged laptop computers from Rugged Notebooks feature backlit rubber keyboards that are sealed from the elements, offering protection from water, dust, dirt, sand, and snow.

The LCD is illuminated from both the front and the rear of the screen. Combining the illumination characteristics of both transmissive and reflective technologies, transflective technology works under any lighting condition, from complete darkness to direct sunlight. Because our transflective display is a passive technology that does not rely upon the backlight, instead uses ambient light to enhance brightness and contrast under both indoor and outdoor conditions. Rugged Notebooks

Offers integrated resistive touchscreen as well as digitizer displays for enhanced productivity. Whether it’s a ruggedized laptop, tablet computer, notebook, or PDA, Rugged Notebooks

When it comes to ruggedized notebooks reliability takes center stage. Can your system withstand harsh environments and conditions, shock and vibration? Rugged Notebooks

Standards to perform in any environment. Functionality is next on the list. can the system support GPS and other on-the-field data acquisition and analysis functions? Performance in terms of CPU speed, RAM and hard drive capacity as well as expandability options is also an important purchasing criterion. Rugged Notebooks

We offer enhanced capabilities such as extended-life batteries, PCI expansion, fiber optic adapters, and RS232/RS422/RS 485 serial ports. Services include applications engineering, system configuration, customization, software-hardware compatibility evaluations for final systems. Our rugged notebooks can be outfitted for extreme environments.

The Developer's Notebook series is for early adopters of leading-edge technologies who want to get up to speed quickly on what they can do now with emerging technologies. If you're a coder down to your core, and just want to get on with the job, then you want a Developer's Notebook. Coffee stains and all, these books are from the minds of developers to yours, barely cleaned up enough for print.

JBoss is a fully certified J2EE 1.4 application server that's free, popular, and competitive with proprietary Java application servers in features and quality. JBoss. A Developer's Notebook takes you on Read more.

Maven. A Developer's Notebook is the first book on the subject to hit the market, so you know the information is fresh and timely. If you're a Java programmer, you'll Read more.

This no-nonsense book quickly gets you up to speed on the new Spring open source framework. Favoring examples and practical application over theory, Spring. A Developer's Notebook features 10 code-intensive Read more.

In typical Developer's Notebook style, you'll learn how to take SWT out for a spin, make it work for you, and turn it upside down, all without wasted words or space. Read more.

Hibernate. A Developer's Notebook shows you how to use Hibernate to automate persistence. you write natural Java objects and some simple configuration files, and Hibernate automates all the interaction between Read more.

A Developer's Notebook is just what it claims to be the often frantic scribbling and notes that a true-blue alpha geek makes when working with a new language, API, or project. It's the no-nonsense code that solves problems, stripped of page-filling commentary that can often serve as more of a paperweight than an epiphany. It's hackery, focused not on what's nifty or might be fun if you've got some spare time, but what you need to simply make it work now. This isn't a lecture, folks. it's a lab. View Sample

Mr. Cabas created the class "as an excuse to teach Robert Johnson," and the class' papers, which come out of a period of listening to and recording observations in a literary notebook on Johnson's songs, are often the best that he gets for the entire session. The students analyze Johnson's songs for devices such as alliteration, assonance, metaphor, simile, and even scan a stanza to get a feeling for each song's unique meter.

Exploration & Adventure History & Events People & Places Animals & Nature Science & Technology Air Force One Lockdown DogTown Locked Up Abroad Hard-Time Morphed Known Universe Taboo Explorer Man-Made Inside Wild Naked Science Dog Whisperer World's Toughest Fixes Dangerous Encounters Flying Aircraft Carrier Rome's Buried City Inside al Qaeda Mongolia Darwin's Secret Notebooks Tomb of 1,000 Roman Skeletons Shooting of Ronald Reagan Titanic. How It Really Sank Sunk on Christmas Eve The Real Abraham Lincoln Hi-Tech War on Terror Arctic Void

Darwin's Secret Notebooks, Inside Darwin's Mind, The oddity of flightless birds leads Darwin to question the intentions of the Creator.

The Bottom Line. Despite an underpowered CPU, the HP 2133 Mini-Note PC offers the best balance of small size, comfort, and functionality we've seen in a mininotebook, making it fast a favorite for on-the-go use. Read review Specs. VIA C7-M (1.6 GHz), 1.6 GHz, 2.0 GB DDR2 SDRAM, 2.6 lbs, 8.9 in TFT active matrix, EPEAT silver, EPEAT Silver, Vista Business

The Bottom Line. The Sony Vaio VGN-NS240E is a respectable, attractive mainstream budget notebook, but it can't match what the competition is offering for the same price. Read review Specs. Intel Core 2 Duo (2 GHz), 2 GHz, 3 GB DDR2 SDRAM, 6.4 lbs, 15.4 in TFT active matrix, EPA Energy Star, RoHS, Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium

To choose the right notebook--one with the right set of features at the right price--you'll need to figure out how you'll want to use your machine. Match your needs to one of these user profiles to get started.

Home user Home users are increasingly turning to notebooks as their primary PCs. they like that laptops can offer similar performance and features to those of a desktop PC and can be easily moved from room to room. Though of course almost any notebook will do for typical home use, there are two types of notebooks most suitable for home users. midsize notebooks, which tend to be budget-friendly, and desktop replacements, which are usually packed with features.

Student Students and others on a tight budget should look for a laptop that delivers the most bang for the buck. In particular, students need a notebook that is small and light enough to lug back and forth across campus but rugged enough to withstand bouncing around in a backpack.

Frequent flier If you spend a lot of time on the road, size and weight are the two most critical factors in choosing a new notebook--even if it means sacrificing a little on performance and features. The smallest and lightest notebooks, ultraportables, weigh less than four pounds and are no thicker than a spiral-bound notebook.

Business power user If you rely on the same notebook at work, at home, and on the road, you need a well-balanced system. And it has to deliver the performance to keep up with a wide range of applications. A thin-and-light is just the ticket.

Multimedia author or gamer If you demand more from a notebook, you'll need a true desktop replacement. Whether you're designing a Web site, editing home movies, or mowing down aliens, your notebook will demand a powerful processor, plenty of memory, great graphics, and a healthy hard drive.

Notebook specs vary widely depending on what you need to get out of your portable computer. Manufacturers make trade-offs--slower processors allow for smaller batteries, for instance--so it's important to know what you'll have to sacrifice to get the notebook of your dreams. Many vendors offer configuration choices when you buy your notebook. We've broken out the most important specs so that you understand your choices.

Processor Sometimes referred to as the CPU, or central processing unit, the processor is the brains of the computer. It's the most important chip in a notebook, and it has power-management features that extend battery life. Notebooks use a variety of processor types depending on their focus. The chart below shows all of the laptop processors currently available from AMD and Intel. in practice, most manufacturers offer laptop configurations using only a handful of the most recent chips. Note that this chart shows only the relative performance and battery life of each processor within the product lines of AMD and Intel. The rankings are not based on independent test results, and the actual performance and battery life of a laptop will depend on many factors, including the display, the size of the battery, and the optimizations made by the manufacturer. The only way to accurately gauge performance and battery life is through hands-on reviews based on objective labs tests.

Memory Every computer comes with a certain amount of physical memory, usually referred to as main memory or RAM (random-access memory). Computers store currently running applications and data in this area. To find out how much memory you'll need, take into account your operating system and the applications that you plan to use. A general rule of thumb. You'll want at least 1GB (though 2GB is preferable) for Windows Vista or Mac OS X and 512MB for all other Windows and Mac operating systems. If you're planning to hang on to your notebook for a long time, look for a laptop with easy-to-access memory slots, as memory is typically one of the first specs you'll want to upgrade.

Display size Unlike traditional desktop CRT (cathode-ray tube) monitors, notebooks ship with thin, liquid-crystal displays (LCDs). Notebook LCDs range in size from 10.6 inches (diagonal) to 20 inches. display size is a key factor in the laptop's overall weight. For comfortable viewing at the preferred Windows resolution of 1,024x768, most people like 14.1-inch or larger LCDs. Notebook LCDs once varied widely in brightness, color, and sharpness, but today, you'll find much better quality across the board. Unfortunately, when it comes to LCDs, the specs reveal little about actual picture quality, so if you're picky about screens, compare some at your local dealer. The latest in notebook display technology incorporates LED backlights. currently found on only a few models, backlit LED displays can be brighter, thinner, less power-hungry and more expensive than traditional LCDs.

First, decide how big of a hard drive you need. this will depend on how much data you store. After that, determine what you'll use your notebook for. Will you be tackling the most basic computing tasks, or do you plan to make your own DVD movies?

This magnetic disk provides you with space to save programs and files indefinitely--or at least for the life of the drive. Notebook hard drives can provide up to 120GB of storage--some notebooks incorporate two 120GB drives for extra storage space--but these giant drives cost hundreds of dollars more than the default 60GB to 80GB notebook drives. The 60GB to 80GB drive should be sufficient, unless you store lots of music and movies or tons of pictures. Be warned that capacity alone does not make a good hard drive. The hard disk's rotational speed also makes a big difference. a 7,200rpm notebook disk delivers significantly faster performance than a 5,400rpm model. The faster the disk spins, the better your notebook will perform overall, though a faster disk will also shorten your laptop's battery life.

Nearly all notebooks, even budget systems, include a CD-RW/DVD drive (either built in to the laptop or external and connected via USB) for burning discs and watching movies on the road. DVD burners, which let you store large amounts of information on one disc, are also commonplace. double-layer DVD burners can pack even more data on a single disc. But unless you need to store huge files, such as movies, you may not need these more expensive DVD-RW drives.

The least expensive notebooks come with fixed (built-in) drives. In other words, if you buy your notebook with a fixed DVD-ROM, you're stuck with that drive. A swappable drive bay, on the other hand, gives you optimum flexibility. For instance, you can pull out the DVD-ROM drive and swap in a combo DVD/CD-RW drive or even a second battery. We recommend going with a swappable bay if you can afford it. Keep in mind, however, that the smallest and lightest ultraportable notebooks may include neither fixed nor swappable optical drives, relying instead on external drives that connect via USB.

External drives--storage and media-burning options that hook up to your notebook via cable--come in many shapes and sizes. Most of these drives connect to your notebook via a USB or FireWire cable. Drive choices include DVD/CD-RW, DVD-RW, hard drive, and others. There are also smaller external drives, called thumbdrives, that plug directly into your USB connector sans cable. These little drives are brilliant for transferring small amounts of data between notebooks or between notebooks and PCs, and they're much more convenient than burning data onto CD. Many notebook users don't need external drives, but there are scenarios that require them. For instance, if you buy a tiny ultraportable that lacks a built-in CD-ROM drive, determine whether you'll need an external one to load software or read data discs.

To send and receive e-mail, browse the Web, and share files or printers, your notebook must be able to connect to a network or the Internet. This is usually done via a modem, an Ethernet hookup, or a wireless connection (either WLAN or WWAN). But your notebook has additional connectivity needs, too. Notebooks include a variety of ports, or connectors that physically link to and communicate with different kinds of equipment, including digital cameras and external monitors. If you can't find the port you want, you can usually buy a port replicator or a docking station that adds connectors. These notebook-expansion options tend to be pricey, however, so you're generally better off buying a notebook that has everything that you'll need out of the box. Find out about each type of connection below.

PC Cards and ExpressCards The PC Card, a credit card-shaped device that plugs into a slot on your notebook, can provide a number of connection types--modems, USB connections (say, for your digital camcorder), and wireless WAN radios are all available in PC Card form. PC Cards are handy because they're easy to upgrade and because you can buy third-party PC Card solutions after you purchase your notebooks. However, most notebooks come with only one or two Type II PC Card slots, forcing you to limit the number of PC Cards you can add.

The Proxim Orinoco World PC Card (left) and the Linksys WPC300N dual-band wireless adapter (right) are two examples of PC Card wireless adapters with antennas that extend beyond the edge of the notebook.

Networking options Though the standard is being phased out, most notebooks still come with a 56Kbps-modem (RJ-11) connection, and virtually all include Ethernet (RJ-45) or even faster Gigabit Ethernet connections. Almost all notebooks also include built-in antennas for wireless networking (802.11, or Wi-Fi) so that you can access wireless hot spots. If you choose a notebook with networking built in, consult our wireless network buying guide to learn the difference between the networking standards that are currently on the market, including 802.11a, 802.11b, 802.11g, and draft 802.11n. If your travels regularly take you beyond the reach of Wi-Fi hot spots, you may want to consider spending a little extra for a notebook with a built-in WWAN card. These systems let you tap in to a cellular provider's data network. They can be incredibly useful when connectivity is spotty, but the technology has its downsides. data plans still tend to be pricey. throughput speeds, while improving, are still slower than most high-speed Internet. and your built-in cellular card can work with only one cellular provider. Depending on the model you choose, you may also have the option (often for an additional cost) of ordering a Bluetooth adapter in your laptop. This will let you connect your laptop to other Bluetooth-enabled devices (such as a printer, a cell phone, or a PDA) that are in close range. f your notebook doesn't include any of the above network adapters, it's fairly easy to find PC Cards that get the job done.

Other ports and connectors Most notebooks have a VGA port for an external monitor, Ethernet and modem jacks, headphone and microphone jacks, and two to three (or more) USB ports for connecting an external keyboard and mouse, drives, digital cameras, and MP3 players. For home use, you may want any variety of A/V connections, such as S-Video, DVI, or S/PDIF output, and a FireWire port for capturing and editing digital video or hooking up an external storage drive.

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A docking station contains a mixture of ports, slots, drive bays, and security features, and it usually attaches to the notebook from underneath. Docking stations come in a variety of shapes, ranging from the same size as your notebook, which is often referred to as a media slice, to much bigger--some stick out five inches past the back of your notebook. As the name implies, a docking station is where you park your notebook when you get back to the office, giving you easy access to your network, along with a bigger monitor, a regular keyboard, additional storage devices, and the convenience of leaving cables plugged in when you walk away from your desk. A port replicator, on the other hand, is a smaller, stripped-down version of a docking station that mainly features--as you might guess--ports, such as USB or S-Video. A port replicator can range from the size of a box of toothpaste to just shy of docking-station stature. When you're on the road, a port replicator is a convenient way to increase your connectivity.

If you do even a modest amount of traveling, we recommend getting the largest battery available for your model--or, if you're wary of the extra bulk that a larger battery entails, get a second battery. They range from $50 to $300, and they are well worth the money if you plan to regularly spend more than two to three hours away from a wall outlet. Next time you're trapped on the tarmac working away on your laptop and your primary battery is about to die, you'll be glad to have that second cell. If you rarely travel with your notebook, however, and your laptop is pretty much always plugged in, don't bother with a second battery.

External drives--storage and media-burning options that hook up to your notebook via cable--can be a pain to carry around and hook up, plus they can be pricey. You're generally better off buying a notebook that has everything you need out of the box. Nevertheless, external drives are sometimes required. If, for instance, you buy an ultraportable that lacks a built-in CD-ROM drive, you might want an external drive for loading software or reading data discs. Types of external drives include DVD/CD-RW, DVD-rewritable, hard drives, and more. No matter what notebook you buy, we strongly urge you to invest in a thumbdrive that plugs directly into your USB connector sans cable. Priced as low as $15 for 1GB of storage, these little drives are brilliant for transferring small amounts of data between notebooks or between notebooks and PCs, and they're much more convenient than burning data onto CD.

Working for hours with just a pointing stick or a touch pad can take a toll on your hand, wrist, and forearm. To save yourself some wear and tear, invest in a small travel mouse. These can cost as little as $20, they usually hook up via USB, and they're very easy to tote. The same advice applies to typing for hours on your notebook's keyboard. If you plant your notebook on your desk when you work, hook up a USB keyboard and relieve your wrists. If you prefer working without wires, get a wireless mouse and keyboard.

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Design Observer. 26 Years, 85 Notebooks Why a notebook link from the guy whos supposedly over notebook pr0n? Easy. This is all about how Michael Bierut has

His 85 notebooks over the past 26 years. The notebooks function like a security blanket for me. I cant go into a meeting unless I have my current notebook in my hand, even if I never open it. Because I carry one everywhere, I tend to misplace them a lot. Losing one makes me frantic. Its a fascinating mini-memoir, told through almost three decades of lines in a go-to capture tool. To me, this is much more about habits, cognition, and memory than paper and cardboard. Like most designers, I get asked a lot about my process. A lot of my ideas are so simple and dumb that a simple dumb drawing is all it takes to describe it. I probably did the drawing for the cover of Tibor Kalmans monograph in a meeting. Picture on the front, stacked type on the spine. what if we did something like this? Thats how it came out. If a process is supposed to have steps, to reflect a method, that isnt much of a process. I disagree. Any process that stops

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On August 12, 1982, I took a 10 x 7 1/8 inch National Blank Book Company composition book from the supply closet of my then employer, Vignelli Associates. From that moment, I have never been without one. I always have one at my desk. I take one with me to every meeting. I am now in the middle of Notebook #85. It's in front of me right now. Together, these well-worn books create a history of my working life that spans three decades.

I tend to be obsessive-compulsive, and I am very picky about the notebooks. No fancy Moleskines for me, just standard-issue office supply composition books.

I use them in order. Tibor Kalman once asked me why I didn't have a different notebook for every project. I have to admit, this would be more useful. But I don't. I fill each one up and then move to the next one, the projects all jumbled together. Starting with the third one, every one of them is numbered. Except for two at the very beginning that used gridded paper, they have blank, unlined pages. I hate gridded paper (but not as much as lined paper.) There have been times when it's been really difficult to get unlined composition books, which I gather are oddly unpopular. One time I found a supplier who would only sell them in bulk and I bought a whole boxful. I thought these would last the rest of my life, but I gave a lot away, which I regret. Now they're gone.

Covers of Notebook #25 (September 20, 1993 to May 14, 1994) and Notebook #26 (May 18 to August 24, 1994)

Santa Cruz fashion catalog color studies in Notebook #3 (to November 21, 1983 to December 6, 1984). Note hideous gridded paper

Looks like a designer's sketchbook, doesn't it? These are ideas for a poster to promote a friend's production of the Sam Shepard play Fool for Love, a contemporary western about a disfunctional relationship. Pages like this, where I seem to be methodically working through a series of options, are actually fairly rare in the notebooks. I must have been stuck somewhere with nothing else to do. The final poster looked nothing like any of these sketches.

These are more typical of the kinds of drawings you find in the notebooks. They were done in one of the early planning meetings for Disney's new town of Celebration, Florida. In meetings with lots of people around a table, you can take notes and sketch without attracting much attention. (This is especially true if you're a graphic designer surrounded by a lot of architects.) Unlike the Fool for Love sketches, this one turned out more like the sketch.

The notebooks function like a security blanket for me. I can't go into a meeting unless I have my current notebook in my hand, even if I never open it. Because I carry one everywhere, I tend to misplace them a lot. Losing one makes me frantic. Everyone who works with me gets used to me asking, "Have you seen my notebook anywhere?" which I assume gets irritating after a while. sorry. I've left them behind in clients' offices. On one occasion, I left one on the roof of a cab on the upper west side. I ended up walking ten blocks, retracing the taxi's route, until I found it on Broadway at 63rd Street, intact except for some tire marks.

Only twice have I lost notebooks and never found them. One was left behind somewhere in the sprawling corporate headquarters of United Airlines in Elk Grove, Illinois. The other, #45, disappeared at Heathrow Airport. That particular loss was extra sad since it contained a drawing my then 13-year-old daughter Liz did that she claims is the original sketch for the Citibank logo. (She changed the t in Citi into an umbrella. of course, Paula Scher may have already had that idea.)

Cover sketch for "Tibor Kalman, Perverse Optimist" in Notebook #42 (November 24 1997 to March 10 1998)

Museum of Arts and Design sketches (left) and Libeskind monograph sketches (right) in Notebook #82 (October 22, 2007, to February 2, 2008)

The markings in the notebooks are often a kind of terse shorthand that I don't think would be comprehensible to anyone but me. On one hand, the sketches for the Museum of Arts and Design identity on the left are pretty clear. (I was really infatuated with that alphabet and filled pages with it for weeks, not that different from my binge on bubble letters in the second grade.)

The last page of my notebook is traditionally the place where I write down things I have to do. proposals to write, phone calls to answer, upcoming presentations. I cross them off as I get them done, as a lot of other people do, which is satisfying. I also shove a lot of stray ephemera into the pages, as well as the occasional treasure, like the 32-year-old snapshot of my wife Dorothy that I carried around for a few months before writing about it here on Design Observer.

When I look at these notebooks, many of the references bring back memories, some decades old. But other times I frankly can't remember why I was writing these things down. Did I ever call Dilland? Whatever happened to Executive Sign? What was the Lefand Alliance? In many ways, the act of notetaking and sketching is an end in itself for me. Many of these pages, filled with trivia as they are, are destined never to be looked at a second time.

That makes the occasional encounter with life beyond the office all the sweeter. Growing up, my kids knew they weren't supposed to draw in my notebooks, but that never stopped them. Thank God. I have them to thank for my favorite pages.

I love these! i have an obsessive disorder with notebooks too except i can't bring myself to write in them and ruin them. i have TONS of blank notebooks, sketch books, journals, tiny books, big books etc. full of nothing. i will take one off the shelf with full intentions of giving it a purpose but will usually stare at it for a few days until i put it back. if i do write in one i will usually rip out the pages later. i love your books and it makes me want to conquer my fear of ruining notebooks so that i could have such a wonderful collection of random thoughts and processes over my lifetime! i think i'll grab one of those books off of the shelf tonight! thanks, lauren

Notebooks are great because they allow designers to do what they do best—think visually. Hand-drawing and sketching is becoming a lost discipline as designers turn too fast to technology to foster their own ideation. The notebook is the place to quickly capture seeds of ideas before they get lost in the noise. And overtime, our notes and doodles yield insights into the way we think, organize our world, and respond to others—insights that we can learn from. Nice post. And, there's nothing wrong with a Moleskin.

This is a great post and solidifies why designers should have notebooks. Sometimes the best ideas are done when you are at the starting point, the floodgates when ideas are pouring out and you worry about nothing. It allows you to think freely, open your mind to anything and for me, it is one of the most inspiring parts of the process. Thank You.

Blasphemy, Michael – all artists must use design-chic notebooks! This is a great post – I'm always intrigued by a designer's process. Oh and nice handwriting.

I've definitely looked back over my notebooks and discovered little trails of thoughts that led to more substantial work or ideation later. I've also learned a ton about how I work as a human being (and that's only in the past five or so years that I've kept notebooks of my own). You said something so important there too. Let what happens in your books happen. Like your kids drawings. How precious are those drawings? Now, to find those two lost Bierut notebooks.

My notebooks are very similar, in the sense that they are organized by day and thought instead of project. I rarely find myself going back to look up meeting notes or sketches. I've put a lot of thought into it. Though it seems unorganized, I think the act of writing everything down helps me stay organized internally. I save them all, but never considered numerically ordering them. Its interesting to see other designer's organizational methods.

This is wonderful. I should start collecting all my post it's. I have used post it's a my notebook for years. They are the best invention. I find them stuck everywhere and crumpled in my pockets—all scribbled up with tiny little ideas.

Michael, I first read about your notebooks in Debbie Millman's How to Think Like a Great Graphic Designer. Thanks so much for showing some of them here! A few years ago I started my own notebook habit. I mostly use 7" x 10" Cachet sketch books, with plain white paper. I use them for both sketches and writing, and put different type foundry stickers on the covers to tell them apart.

Wonderful post. You've made me feel a bit more self-conscious of my own note keeping tendencies. I happen to just grab one of the books piled on my desk in no particular order and with no particular reason on any particular day (not very particular am I?). My notebooks are more confusing than the notes in them are worth these days. I need to be a bit more stringent and stick with one, perhaps this will be the motivation.

That's real great! There must be other designers, including myself, who have pictures of their notebooks too! But since I am quite new to the game, I only have three. Nice post!

Years ago I worked in an structural engineering company, the president always had this thing for plain sprial notebooks at first its was odd because I have lived with a sketchbook of one shape or size all my life, then it struck me as I was oding more an more freelance work on the side..the holly grail was the notebook. I went through all sorts of them, then I made the move from the sprials to the same ones you use, perfect size perfect eveything. I still have sletch books around but they magically last longer and they are not the firs thing I grab anyone. The plain ole blank composition book is the way of the force!!

Great post. I'm sure that, over the years, these notebooks will be not only a collection of your ideas, but also a commentary on how design has evolved over your career. You should think about submitting them in one of those design magazines that showcases personal notebooks and sketchbooks of designers --- how great would that be?

Great inspiring post. at the start of my design odyssey, i yearned to someday have a stack of notebooks like that.or one even bigger that would hold my ceiling up (not that it's all about the stack and/or quantity, but fun to think about when you're young and dumb). i kept up with sketchbooks my first few years as it was easy for me to indeed keep up with them when i was a janitor. but i've fumbled more recently and found that pants and shirt pocket sized scraps of paper do the trick. though, i tend to just throw them in a box on the edge of the kitchen table or dresser, instead of actually looking at them. thanks so much. -djg

Great post! I'm only on notebook #3, but I'm hooked. can't go anywhere without it. Now only if I could put some good research ideas in it!!

A wonderful post. I too am a notebook addict. The problem is remembering what is in each. What is made clear is the continued archival value of marks on paper. You can always go back to those old notebooks even if you cannot access the old floppy disks or zip drives.

I sincerely wish I could find good unlined notebooks, either unlined composition books like these or spiral-bound notebooks that kids use for school, except unlined. Moleskines are ok, but I find the paper too thick for my taste, and their bindings are not flexible enough for me. I'd prefer an inexpensive, flexible, spiral bound notebook. I wish I could find them!

Thanks, Michael. I'm definitely not a designer. More an account planner type, but my favorite designer colleague turned me on to notebooks several years ago. It's inspiring to know that there are so many others out there who record their thoughts this way. Thank you for sharing and inspiring. Jake

I am a teacher (fine art adjunct-land for the past eight years) as well as a new student of design. I mention this because I both participate in and observe the design classroom. While I believe that process and a drawing practice are valuable—it happens to be how I work—it's not the only way. I’ve noticed that a lot of kids find the sketchbook assignment ("Just draw a little every day.") daunting because they think it must be filled with attractive pictures. Clearly there are successful designers (and I know wonderful fine artists as well) whose sketchbooks are filled almost exclusively with writing, to-do lists, and random notes. I almost sent this post to my design teacher until I realized that he’d ignore the message of the text—“I don’t do things the ‘right’ way”—and just incorporate the images in his sketchbook lecture, further homogenizing the perception of what it means to be a designer. Interestingly, the representation of 85 notebooks filled almost entirely with writing are the aberrant pictures. I’m glad the writing in the notebooks has been represented in the writing of the post.

This is great. I wrote a book about journals, Drawing from Life, which includes some designers' journals but also those of musicians, gardeners, filmmakers, travelers, etc. Much of what you say is mirrored in the interviews I did. the specificity of paper/size/lines or not. the lost journals (one woman's reappeared in Delta's lost and found after THREE years!). the journal read by a prying friend/lover/parent. the notebooks that SHOULD look interesting b/c supposedly you're a creative genius but are rather filled with notes and numbers. Wonderful first-person take on it.

You had me at the word "notebooks", as notebooks so happen to be a slight bit of an obsession for me. At 18, I probably 50-60 college ruled type books, which I've used all my life. I also have a good 15 or more notebooks of other styles and journals, some of which I've handmade from recycled products. Whenever I see a journal or notebook that is well designed, I buy it. I figure I'll fill them up, soon enough..) xoxo, S-C

Great post Michael! I first read about your notebooks and obsessive compulsive behavior (including the one where you HAVE to run!) in How to think like a great graphic designer by Debbie Millman, and it's really great to have a peek inside those notebooks! You can buy the unruled compositions books here. Keep posting and happy notebook-filling!

As much as I love the marks made in a notebook.I can honestly say I'm really tired of 1. Obsessive compulsive behavior. I think people are starting to obsessively become obsessive compulsive on purpose. 2. Seeing people's moleskines, collages, sketches, thought processes. They all blend together now. Just thought I'd be honest.

Note to Katharine Evans. look for the classic french Clairefontaine notebooks. Wirebound and flexible, but school supply sturdy, I believe they come in plain sheets and various sizes. I have a good dozen, going back several years. I switched once when I couldn't find the composition book I had been using. I have to admit to an insistance on gridded paper (sorry michael). But then my notes are rarely visual and the habit started in science classes.

I was given a notebook by my employer to record idea and information, and use to keep track of the many ongoing projects, during my early years. All staff were asked to keep a notebook since we had lots of projects ongoing. Since the employer gave me the notebook and the work related to what I did at that company - I left the notebooks. Creative types may want to keep company and personal notebooks separate (including those with outside off company hours design projects) to avoid legal conflicts about creative development licensing.

Great post - I've been searching for a good consistent (and cheap!) sketch/notebook for years, and this might work for me. I've settled partly on moleskines because they are easy to carry around, but they are too expensive for day-to-day use (I'd use quad-ruled steno pads - but I'm always losing pages). I'd prefer something closer to the size of my 9x12 sketchbooks, but not as cumbersome - and I don't need heavy paper. I predict a run on unruled composition books in the near future.

Excellent post. Thank you. i started w/ bristol city council diaries in 2003. now i'm on the small moleskines 27 notebooks later. i usually have 2 notebooks on the go. my everyday one, complete w/ jottings, musings, ideas, to-do's and bits of life. The other is what i call my investment moleskine. i only put things, creations, concepts and ideas that i believe have a value and could turn into spiritual satisfaction or hard cash. is working so far. keep up the writing

I think it's funny that your third notebook started on my birthday. Not sure why, just the idea of you opening a fresh book as I came into the world is funny to me. Really great post, these insider/behind the scenes things are always intriguing.

I thought of throwing away some old notebooks of mine, but now i am DEFINITELY keeping them!! Thanks for a wonderful post.

Nice! Now I feel inspired to spend more time writing in my notebooks, and less time jotting stuff down on the computer. There's little more satisfying that writing down to-do lists by hand. I'm few years and 4 books into my personal choice of notebook, the 5.5x8.5 spiral bound Canson sketch book. They're quite perfect, if you ask me.

I love your stack of notebooks, the fact that they are records of work rather than whimsical only adds to their beauty. I'm doing 101 things in 1001 days and Goal 010 is to carry a notebook and camera with me everywhere. I think it's a habit that is going to stay with me even after the end of my 1001 days. I'd love to be able to take a picture of my own stack of notebooks someday!

When i was going through my divorce and moving out of the home, I had to make the travels, not through my notebooks, but through moving boxes full of stuff just like this in the basement. I'm not that organized to keep notebooks as a housewife. I separated the kids' journals and artworks from mine and put them into new waterproof containers on shelves. (funny, they had a sump pump overflow in the house just a few months after that). Then i took all the looseleaf pages, things that looked like exact replicas of your "i love you daddy pages" and put them in a separate old cardboard box, eventually placing them on my estranged husband's massive mahogany desk two floors above. Had the estranged been a design major he probably would have recognized the patterns, but alas he is a business engineer and must have seen something else than my eye. I think the last time (two years later) that I looked they were still in the box in the corner of a closet without any mention to me of my saving them after all those years. I'm just glad that you are writing about yours. Maybe as a guy it's not as easy to write about these graphic tchotchke (?) scribblings. Graphic tchotchke isn't the right word, is it?.. a trinket that is decorative rather than functional. No, it is not. It just takes good looking and time to see that the function(role) of parenting evident on those last pages trumps the decorative titles every time.

Great work Michael. I've used standard lined 84 page project planners for close to 10 years now. I'm on book #32. I write/draw/configure/conceptulize everything that happens as it happens. To-dos, To-dont's, project ideas, c-logs(conversation logs) inspirations, goals. I date each day with the city I'm in, the time and day of the week. And although I sometimes write between the lines. Often I don't see the lines. It's a constant stream of life to pass-on. As Jim Rohn says, "keep your books, your pictures and your notebooks(journals). These are the things that matter.

Great post, Michael. I am as well always carrying around some sort of blank book with to-do lists, doodles, schedules, and notes but my selection of books to encase them in is a bit more random. I love the composition books you use and also the other readers suggestion as well. To do item for today. find my signature notebook.

You remind me of how much I like the plain old composition notebook! Loved the views of your inner pages.

I am a big fan of this article. I have always loved to have something to write all of my random thoughts and notes in, so that they don't get lost. There is no worse feeling to me than not being able to remember an idea that struck me as great when I thought of it. I do not always have my notebook with me, but I am going to start carrying it with me all the time because of this article. I started my collection when I was in high school. I was quite often very bored in class and I would do my drawings and doodles in them. I look back at them now and I realize that some of my ideas were quite good, others not so much, but they can't all be winners now can they. My notebook of choice is unlined Moleskin, they are sturdy and I have always thought they just looked perfect for the job of containing my thoughts and ideas. When I pull back the elastic strap holding one of my old notebooks shut I get excited to see what it contains and what I can learn from it. Thanks for the great post, and motivating me to get back to keeping my notebooks on me at all times.

Notebook. The difference between real designers and this. (Ideas, communication, notes from talking to the client, strategy). Fantastic post Michael. After 7 years I'm up to #22. (not counting the A3 one under my bed!)

Beautiful post. You inspired me to think more about how we use notebooks, and write about it on my own blog. Thanks!

I've always used notebooks to sketch design ideas, write endless to-do lists, scraps of poetry, books I really must read, musica I have to search out, ideas for unwritten novels and even permanent records of favourite text messages from people who matter to me. I was starting to change my attitude about keeping hold of these books when I began to cohabit with my minimalist fiance, who keeps everything on computer and thinks notebooks are cluttersome and outmoded. Thank you, then, for this post and to all those kindred spirits who commented. It has encouraged me to continue to save these collections of my thoughts and experiences, and to continue to write, write, doodle, write.

This is a great post who would thought there would be more like me enjoying the benefits of notebook. I cant go without it never every idea thought concept drawing it go's all there I started with it in 1997 on to this day, I have to admit some barely survived the years past but still in a good enough shape to see what I've been doing. Really can recommend a notebook to anyone walking with idea's and such you'll never regret jolting down anything it also helps prevent repetition of what is though of before reinventing the wheel again and again and again sorry for that but notebooks are my not electronic battery hungry devices.

Michael, Amazing. I, along with many here, also share the notebook frenzy. Mine are 5x7 leather, and the first thing I hear when I use it for the first time becomes the title, which I carve on the cover. Unfortunately, many have obscenities (oh the days of art school). Although, I've noticed that since writing down everything, my memory has gotten increasingly poor. I start to rely on it as if it were a part of my brain. This concerns me on numerous levels. Thanks again for sharing your books! -Michelle

Wonderful post. As a design student I have been “required” to keep sketch/notebooks for years, but I feel as it’s more forced, not something that I ever kept up beyond the required. Seeing your use of notebooks and the opportunity to have a type of time capsule of your work is incredible and very inspiring. I was wondering if you have thought about creating a large book of all your different notebooks? I think it would be incredible at book #100 to have a “reference” of all the past notebooks, something like that would be extremely helpful for design students like myself.

Michael, This is a great post. It is good to see the process which is often neglected by tech savvy young designers. I recently became aware that some design programs have eliminated graphic design history. For some reason they want nothing to do with the growth of design. Your notebooks are records that design starts way before technology is even considered for production. Not long ago a friend email me info about a former graphic designer who left the field to work on his art. One thing that caught my attention was what this artist calls, his "red book." In it he stores visual elements (that inspire him). I was told that he will make compositions (mainly collages) with all the items in the red book, photographs it and then takes it apart and puts the items back in the red book. This is so different from having multiple sketchbooks or notebooks. Would love to see this book years from now along with his compositions. I was told that he rarely shares his art with the public. Here's a short slide show showing part of his red book.

I enjoyed this post because I LOVE notebooks. I find I love decorating the covers more than writing or drawing at times though. I have a passion for notebooks. Oh the possibilities, lol which is the problem. I don't want to write in some of most favorite ones! Though when I do class projects I buy more spiral notebooks and keep each class in its own book. And at the beginning of each project I do come up with fully formed ideas and sketches. I also love coming back years later and getting ideas or reuse some of my old ideas. I love the composition books the best. I love to decorate those thick covers. Thanks for this awesome post..)

Yay! I'm on track to beat you in... 21 years time *sigh*.-P. Admittedly my notebooks aren't near as thick or beautifully filled as yours tho.-P. They look amazing! GJ on keeping all those! I LOVE NOTEBOOKS!

Mr. Beirut, Notebooks are to our selves as the dish rags and towels in the sink are to the kitchen. Look ragged and used in the end, but contain lots of stuff that will go down the drain.

I wouldn't worry about not keeping notebooks. I only start to and fail because of ingrained Catholic school behavior modification guilt and subsequent flashbacks. Now on average I move about every two years in my life and i constantly find envelopes that are written with doodles and poetry on the backs. I can accurately place the date 90% of the time from what i've created by just looking at it. Usually test myself by turning it over and checking a postmark. Mental workout for the notebook impaired. And I've been recycling all those unrecyclable envelopes even when it wasn't fashionable to be green.

A comment from an Industrial Designer, if you don't mind.I prefer coil ring notebooks for functional reasons. they fold neatly onto themselves, easier to use without a desk in front of you - or on a plane, etc. I'm only on #15 however.

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They run on Linux, are designed purely as Web devices and will deliver up to eight hours of battery life. These prototypes were much thinner than other netbooks Ive used, but still manage to have a full compliment of ports. Details may change by the time this netbook reaches the marketplace, but Im hoping its overall design stays intact. I talked to Alain-De Lee, the industrial designer behind this product and he calls his design concept Mass-tige, or the idea of bringing prestigous-looking products to the mass market. He previously led design projects for Asus and came up with the look and feel of the Lamborghini special edition notebook.

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Faradays hand-written notebookshave long been of interest to historians and philosophers of science because of the extraordinarily direct insight they give into the way his thinking developed. They are also remarkable in the amount of detail that they give about the design and setting up of experiments, interspersed with comments about their outcome and thoughts of a more philosophical kind. All are couched in plain language, with many vivid phrases of delightful spontaneity. Peter Day, The Philosophers Tree. A Selection of Michael Faradays Writings

The skill of writing the Laboratory Notebook even the existence of such a Notebook has probably fallen somewhat into disuse with the advent of the photocopied worksheet. Yet it is a vital part of industrial and academic research, and indeed can in these activities be required in law to establish, for example, patent rights. Kanare

Offers many insights into how such rights may be protected, and I am indebted to his book for numerous things that I had not thought of. This page offers some hints for the revival of the Art of the Laboratory Notebook in a school or university undergraduate setting.

It would be a brave professional scientist, let alone teacher or student, who would take issue with Faraday. Notebooks couched in plain language, with vivid phrases.. What a marvellous image Peter Day conjures up. All of Faraday's notebooks exist and remain at the Royal Institution in Albemarle St. where they were all written. The whole point of a laboratory notebook is that it should

The title of the experiment - and this should appear on any added pieces of paper, graphs, whatever, that are pasted into the notebook.

The experimental plan. This is the part of the account that tells what you are going to do. It may be that you have detailed instructions already, in which case they can be written or pasted into the notebook. If you are planning an investigation you will have to write out your own plan. If so.

Kanare, Howard M. Writing the Laboratory Notebook. Washington D. C.. American Chemical Society, 1985. ISBN 0 8412 0933 2

From 2008 onwards we are planning to publish three issues per year. The journal publishes manuscripts from the anthropological and related fields. The manuscripts should not include already published materials and should not be simultaneously submitted to another journal. Each author is responsible for acquiring permissions for previously published materials. The manuscripts should be submitted by e-mail as attachment to the editor, or posted in printed version on the address of Slovene Anthropological Society, Gortanova 22, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia. The manuscript should include author's name, affiliation, phone number and e-mail address. In 2005, 2006 and 2007 Anthropological Notebooks has been financially supported by the Slovenian Research Agency.

When we designed the new MacBook, our designers and engineers set a goal of making not only the greenest notebook Apple ever produced, but the greenest family of notebooks. So every new MacBook has been built using materials that are highly recyclable and free of many of the harmful substances present in other computers. Apple engineers also designed the software and hardware to work together, in order to maximize energy efficiency and minimize the carbon footprint of the MacBook. Even the packaging was reconsidered and reduced, producing smaller boxes to ship and less material to recycle. The result is exactly what we hoped for. the greenest family of notebooks ever made.

Apple has worked hard to eliminate many of the toxins that are a common part of notebook manufacturing. Take, for example, the mercury used in CCFL backlights and the arsenic contained in the glass of traditional LCD displays. Apple engineers removed both by choosing mercury-free LED technology and arsenic-free glass. They also removed brominated flame retardants (BFRs) and polyvinyl chloride (PVC) from circuit boards, internal cables, connectors, insulators, shock mounts, adhesives, and more. Apple has removed these toxins from MacBook computers, and we’ve done the same for the Apple LED Cinema Display, iPod touch, iPod classic, iPod nano, and iPhone 3G.

Because Apple makes both the hardware and the software for the MacBook, we are able to design them to work together. This allows us to make a smarter product that uses less electricity, earning it ENERGY STAR certification. For instance, to reduce energy consumption, the MacBook hard drive spins down automatically when inactive. The MacBook also decides which processor — CPU or GPU — is best suited to efficiently perform a task. The processor even throttles down to save power between keystrokes as you type. The LED-backlit display in the MacBook is another feature that plays an important part in conserving energy, consuming 30 percent less power than conventional LCD displays. And the display is designed to dim when you enter a darkened room. Together, these adjustments make the MacBook family much more energy efficient. In fact, our most popular notebook, the MacBook, can run on just one-quarter the power of a single lightbulb.

The removable batteries in most notebooks are designed to be replaced every year or two, which means lots of batteries are used up and discarded. But the battery in the new 17-inch MacBook Pro lasts up to five years — or 1000 recharges. So it uses just one battery in the same time a typical notebook uses three.*

How to Keep a Notebook One of the most useful skills you will acquire in the laboratory is the proper use of a laboratory notebook. Notebooks, or other formally kept records, are an essential tool in many careers, ranging from that of the research scientist to that of the practicing physician. The effort invested in developing good habits of notebook use will be amply repaid for students who pursue a future in the basic or applied sciences. Experience has indicated that skillful notebook use is developed by most students only through continued special effort--it does not come naturally. Some of the main principles of sound notebook use are outlined below. The laboratory notebook is a permanent, documented, and primary record of laboratory observations. Therefore, your notebook will be a bound journal with pages that should be numbered in advance and never torn out. A notebook will be supplied to you before the first laboratory period. Write your name, the name of your TA, and your lab section on the cover of your notebook. All notebook entries must be in ink and clearly dated. No entry is ever erased or obliterated by pen or "white out". Changes are made by drawing a single line through an entry in such a way that it can still be read and placing the new entry nearby. If it is a primary datum that is changed, a brief explanation of the change should be entered (e. g. "balance drifted" or "reading error"). No explanation is necessary if a calculation or discussion is changed. the section to be deleted is simply removed by drawing a neat "x" through it. In view of the fact that a notebook is a primary record, data are not copied into it from other sources (such as this manual or a lab partner's notebook, in a joint experiment) without clear acknowledgment of the source. Observations are never collected on note pads, filter paper, or other temporary paper for later transfer into a notebook. If you are caught using the "scrap of paper" technique, your improperly recorded data may be confiscated by your TA or instructor at any time. It is important to develop a standard approach to using a notebook routinely as the primary receptacle of observations. Each week at the beginning of lab lecture, you will turn in your prelab problems from the manual for grading. Prelab problems not turned in at the beginning of lab lecture will be marked late. The calculations in the prelab problems are usually similar to the calculations in the labooratory experiment, so you may wnt to note your solutions to the problems in your notebook for further use. On weeks when a "data sheet" is indicated, use your results obtained in the laboratory to complete the data sheet and turn it in for grading. Your grade for each lab will consist of points for the prelab preparation and problems and points for the information presented on the data sheet. Twice during the semester, you will do a full lab write up of the experiment. This should contain sections 1,2,5 and 6 from the introduction of the manual (p. 9), as well as a thoery and procedure section and should be word-processed. You will also need to include a title page. Please see page 15 of your lab manual for more specific information about the formal reports. Your notebook should be your primary source of information. Everything you do in the laboratory should be included in your notebook, from procedure to calculations. When notebooks are examined, we will look for the following points in almost all cases. Prelab write-up that shows that you were prepared for lab before beginning the experiment. Data and associated graphs and calculations that quantitatively gauge how successful your laboratory technique was. Enough explanatory information so that someone else with your knowledge of chemistry could, from your notebook alone, enter the lab and repeat your work. Your discussion and answers to questions raised from time to time in the laboratory manual itself. Aside from the prelab requirements, note that the majority of the calculations and notebook write up can and should be accomplished in "real time" - while you are in the lab, recording data and observations, and making calculations. Always bring a calculator to lab. It will be invaluable in making preliminary calculations and even for calculating final results while you wait for other things to finish. A laboratory notebook should be legible, and data in it should be readily accessible, clearly labeled with units, and grouped in a logical way. The following outline is suggested for Chem 3/5 and Chem 6. A sample lab write-up for a simple experiment to determine the density of liquids follows the outline below and is shown on pp. 11-14 in your manual. 1. Objective State the purpose of the experiment along with a brief statement of basic principles involved and the method to be used. 2. Reference Cite the source for the experiment. It will suffice to reference the page numbers of the Lab Manual from which the procedure comes. 3. Prelab Procedure Flowchart or Outline Before coming to lab, summarize the procedure you will perform in a flowchart or outline. Examples of both formats are given in the sample write-up. 4. Sample Calculations or Analysis Flowchart or Outline Before coming to lab, write in your notebook a description of the calculations that you will perform to analyze your data. This can be in the form of a sample calculation or a flowchart or outline. Note that in weeks when no calculations are required, this section is omitted. 5. Procedure, Data, and Results Qualitative observations and quantitative data are best entered in a running commentary. This commentary should be recorded in the lab, as the experiment proceeds. High prose standards are not expected. If repeated measurements are made using the same procedure, a table provides the best presentation. If the experimental work is done jointly it must be noted and reported independently. Your notebook must list your co-workers and identify who did what. You may write this commentary on the same page as your Prelab Procedure, in an adjacent column. If you use this technique, prelab and in-lab writing must be clearly distinguished. Calculated results are also included in this section. Write your calculations clearly and include a brief explanation for each step. Remember to include units. If the same calculation is done repeatedly, write one sample calculation in your notebook and report the results of other calculations in a table. If an uncertainty analysis is part of your lab write-up, it should be included in this section, with sample calculations. 6. Discussion A discussion of the experiment should include qualitative and quantitative comments on your results. Calculations of precision, accuracy, and possible explanations of any obvious errors may be appropriate. It is often helpful to collect your results in tabular form. Questions posed in the description of the experiment in the Manual should also be answered here. An example discussion for the density experiment is shown in the sample write up in the lab manual. Note that steps 1 through 4 will be done before coming to lab lecture for the week's experiment. Note, too, that a logical tabular form for your data will often be the clearest presentation, but that you should construct these tables in the lab, as you obtain the data, as part of step 5.

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As Google Notebook dwindles into non-development, more services open up to catch all your web-captured data. One week after startup Ubernote jumped in, Evernote and Zoho Notebook arrive on the scene. Evernote, the brain-expanding data organizer, was one of our original suggestions on where to go when Google Notebook goes down. Luckily, the service's coders see it the same way. As explained at their blog, jumping from Notebook to Evernote requires grabbing an Atom-formatted export of each notebook, one by one, then heading to Evernote's Google Notebook import page. Once they arrive, your notebooks' creation dates, URLs, images, and other metadata should arrive intact, and labels and sections become tags. Over at Zoho Notebook, importing your notes requires a (direct link ahoy) Firefox plug-in. Once it's installed, however, it's real easy open up two tabs, log into Zoho in one, Google Notebook in the other, then open a third tab and paste in this URL.

That should launch an importer that does the tough work for you. Zoho Notebook added a "Text Page" that looks similar to Google's layout of cascading vertical notepads. For more places to stash your orphaned notes, check out our suggestion list. G-Notebook users, which service have you ended up migrating to, and why? Tell us in the comments.

Microsoft plans to offer six different versions of Windows 7 when it ships later this year, but OEMs that sell netbooks will likely offer a slimmed-down number of versions. HP recently told Computer World they will offer three different versions for their Mini line, which is keeping in line with current Vista offerings. HP will offer the new Starter Edition for those who are price-conscious, and Home Premium and Professional Editions for those wanting more power. Home Premium is the version that will likely make it on most netbooks such as the HP Minis, which is most like the Vista versions currently shipping on lower-end notebooks. Continue reading

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The Sony Vaio P has captured the imagination of quite a few geeks (like me) since its unveiling at the CES earlier this year. The small sexy notebook with the awesome keyboard and super high-res screen is easily the smallest notebook that has virtually no compromises for all-day use. The tech world was a little miffed when they heard that the Vaio P was available with a faster Atom processor running at 1.86 GHz but only in Japan. It seems only the 1.33 GHz models (and slower) are offered in the US and while that is a capable processor those spending the premium dollars for the Vaio P are the type of consumer who want the fastest processor available. The folks at Dynamism have been busy and are now offering the fastest Vaio P for sale in the US and theyve informed us this model is now shipping. The model currently shipping is the black Vaio P and has a 128 GB SSD onboard with the 1.86 GHz Atom. This top-of-the-line model does not come cheap as it will set you back $2099, a healthy chunk of change to be sure. Its important to note that this is the Japanese model imported by Dynamism and while you get the typical superb Dynamism warranty with your purchase you are also giving up a couple of features the US model contains. There is no integrated 3G option on the Japanese model and no integrated GPS either. This may not be important to many, but its a shame to pay a premium price and lose two pretty key features. This model also ships with the enhanced battery which we take to mean an extended capacity battery so it will probably get pretty good battery life.

The HTC Shift was one of the first full-function ultra-portable notebooks with integrated 3G. We evaluated one back when it first was released and found it to be an innovative notebook with that sliding keyboard. While we found the Shift to be less than compelling the main problem we had with the Shift was the high price. Our friends at Dynamism just let us know that they have a limited number of Shifts that can be picked up for $799. These have integrated HSDPA and are unlocked to work with any carrier. This is a pretty decent price and may be of interest to those looking for a small notebook that is a bit more capable than cheaper netbooks.

Notebook makers have been in a rush to offer integrated 3G in various notebooks over the past couple of years. Models offered in the U. S. can be CDMA (EV-DO) from Sprint or Verizon or HSDPA with ATT. This option is usually not too expensive although it does require a contract be activated with a monthly fee for the access. Recently some OEMs have started offering Gobi technology, which can be either CDMA or HSDPA, meaning it can work with all the 3G networks in the US and most globally. This makes sense for the OEM as they are not tied to one particular 3G technology, although they still usually offer it through one particular network. Integrated 3G has some benefits for the mobile worker and while I have not wanted my 3G to be tethered to one notebook I am softening somewhat in that stance. Continue reading

We were all over the sexy Sony Vaio P from the first rumors to the hands-on treatment at CES. The Vaio P is the most portable notebook with a good keyboard weve seen and are fighting the urge to get the credit card out. Jenn at Pocketables couldnt fight the urge and has not only ordered one of these but has gotten it in her hands. The mandatory unboxing has ensued and Jenn has posted a bunch of high quality pics of the Vaio P for us all to enjoy.

Use a lot of different netbooks and notebooks and one of the common features that most share is the trackpad. The trackpad is that small slippery little pad that replaces the mouse on mobile computers. They havent changed much until recently and they are all pretty much the same, and they all drive me batty. I have never been a fan of the trackpad as theyve never felt right to use. Im one of the rare users who actually liked the old ThinkPad nubbin, that little stick of a mouse that moved the cursor all over the screen. I could use those with a fair bit of precision and it always felt right to do so. Thats just not the case with trackpads, especially now that theyve shrunk to ridiculous sizes. Continue reading

I grab a notebook and head out the door to work quite a bit and it seems that each time I do so I have to give pause and decide what gear to take with me. On the one hand I usually have a netbook to take, small and light and powerful enough to handle most of what I need to do. On the other hand I can grab a full notebook like the MacBook and take it instead. In my case the decision is not straightforward as the MacBook is not that heavy (5 lbs.) and has a 13-inch screen that keeps the size down. Netbooks usually have a 10-inch screen and weigh in about 2 lbs so they definitely are easier to carry with me. The netbook decision gets hard to go along with when a 6-cell battery becomes part of the mix as that usually pushes the weight of the device up to the 3 lb. mark. It becomes harder to decide as the size/ weight gap narrows. I figure that a few of you have the same decision to make before you head out the door so heres a poll to see what the collective thinks. Do you usually grab the netbook or the notebook if you have the choice?

Its already safe to say that netbooks are taking a bite out of notebooks. Windows XP is on the majority of netbooks and Microsoft has already seen a decline in OS revenues because they cant sell a $300 operating system on a $300 device. Add in the worldwide economic crisis and youre seeing some people opt for cheaper computers that can handle most everyday tasks. What about the MID or Mobile Internet Device market? Im of the general opinion that the main difference between the MID and smartphone market is that one offers traditional voice calling and one doesnt. Neither device runs a fully-scaled desktop OS and frankly, neither should. Yet both handheld devices are highly portable, offer web browsing and are in the same general price range as netbooks. So could the netbook start eating into the MID market which got off to a relatively slow start before netbooks even arrived? Continue reading

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Samsung recently entered the U. S. notebook computer market and Im not sure they could have picked a worse time to do so. Theyre fighting a war on two fronts. an economic meltdown on one side and low-priced netbooks eating into traditional notebook sales, a place where profit margins are surely higher. This double-whammy could be an opportunity for some though. A quick scan of Amazon shows both price discounts and major rebates available for Samsungs thin productivity portables. Continue reading

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These Mathematica notebooks are all used for teaching and illustrating concepts. Most have some "discovery learning" built in. These notebooks are used in the course Advanced Mathematics for Applications at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. This is a course that typically uses a book with a title like "Advanced Engineering Mathematics". The order of topics of the course I teach is.

The notebooks are listed in the order I assign them. initializations. nb (download) I collected all of the functions and packages that I need for vector calculus in this one notebook. Evaluate this before each vector calculus session. This made things easy on me and my students. vectors. nb (download) This has some Mathematica basics about vectors along with some functions for plotting vectors and lists of vectors. vecdiffcalc. nb (download) A notebook illustrating parametric curves, gradient, divergence and much more. This is a new and improved version of veccalc. nb. potentialflow. nb (download) Streamlines, equipotential curves, and a bit of complex functions. vecintcalc. nb (download) A notebook illustrating arc length, flows, surface area, flux. curvcoords. nb (download) A notebook with functions to look at orthogonal coordinate systems and the div, grad, curl, in these coordinate systems. This contains Mathematica commands and functions for investigating these coordinate systems, but it is by no means self-contained. laplacetrans. nb (download) A notebook illustrating Laplace transforms and using them to solve some differential equations. evenoddfunctions. nb (download) A review of the properties of even and odd functions in anticipation of orthogonal expansions and Fourier series. orthogpoly. nb (download) Orthogonal expansions with Legendre, Hermite, Laguerre, and Chebyshev polynomials. slfourier. nb (download) Fourier series as an example of Sturm-Liouville theory. Many examples. fourier. nb (download) Fourier series via inner products. Very similar to slfourier. nb, but without the use of Sturm-Liouville theory. oscillation. nb (download) Using Fourier series to solve DE's where the forcing function is expressed as a series. extratips. nb (download) Examples of some modified commands to speed up calculations of Fourier coefficients. complex. nb (download) A notebook illustrating some basic properties of complex numbers (and the relevant Mathematica commands) that may be useful in a course in applied mathematics. complexfourier. nb (download) Two examples of how the complex Fourier series is equivalent its real counterpart. fouriertrans. nb (download) Some examples of Fourier transforms and Fourier integral representation of functions. laplacepde. nb (download) Illustrating Laplace transform solution of PDE's. The next seven files can be used in a linear algebra course or as a linear algebra supplement to an applied mathematics course. The spline. nb notebook is a combination of differential equations and linear algebra. linalg0.nb (download) A notebook illustrating the basics of entering and manipulating matrices using Mathematica. linalg1.nb (download) A Notebook illustrating properties of matrices. elementary matrices, echelon forms, inverses. Requires the package gjsf. m. linalg2.nb (download) A Notebook illustrating properties of matrices. systems, subspaces, bases, Fundamental Theorem of Linear Algebra. Requires the package gjsf. m. gjsf. m (download) A Mathematica package that incorporates some nice functions. elementary row operations, elementary matrices, LU decomposition. This package is needed in linalg1.nb and linalg2.nb. jcf. nb (download) After a review of diagonalization, explains the Jordan canonical form of a matrix. Useful if one wants to do systems of ordinary differential equations. matrixexp. nb (download) Uses diagonalization and the Jordan canonical form to illustrate solving systems of constant coefficient ordinary differential equations. splines. nb (download) Following Strang, Introduction to Advanced Mathematics, cubic splines are developed and illustrated. Notebooks created by Gary Stoudt. Feel free to use and modify these notebooks for your own classroom use, just please keep my name and affiliation in the notebook. Any suggestions for improvement would be welcomed.

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Choose sides in the design worlds love/hate relationship with Helvetica, or have it both ways. This two-sided notebook features a loving quote in Helvetica Std on one cover, then flips to reveal a darker intent. Ruled throughout with additional quotes in unobtrusive 3 pt. type. Favor one side or work from both, toward the middle. A center divider keeps the peace. 192 pages, 6 3/4" x 8 1/2". Featuring quotes from Helvetica, a documentary film by Gary Hustwit, co-produced by Veer. Buy the DVD directly from the Helvetica film site

Apple Inc.'s existing MacBook and MacBook Pro notebooks will be the last of their breed, as both product families are destined for major design changes upon their next refresh,

Of the two, the 13-inch consumer MacBooks will undergo the most significant metamorphosis, shedding their plastic enclosures for ones constructed from more eco-friendly materials such as aircraft-grade aluminum and stainless steel, people familiar with the matter say. The move, which makes good on a promise by company chief executive Steve Jobs to push towards a "greener Apple," will also mark an end to Macs that come clad in the now tawdry looking white enclosures that began with front face of original iMac nearly a decade ago. Similarly, the MacBook Pro is also bound for aesthetic revisions, which like their upcoming MacBook counterparts are described by those familiar with the products as borrowing several design cues from the August 2007 aluminum iMacs and all-new MacBook Air. The end result, those same people say, will be a more uniform Mac product matrix in terms of design and material usage, and a MacBook offering that will far outclass its rivals. Though precise details are admittedly limited given the ongoing revision process, it's presumed this will include instances of matte black on portions of the casings, oversized trackpads, and the adoption of the MacBook Air's keyboard by the MacBook. While the footprint of the 13-, 15-, and 17-inch systems will remain largely unchanged, Apple will reportedly be free to perform some trimming around the edges, similar to -- but nowhere near the same magnitude -- as what was accomplished with the MacBook Air, and to a lesser extent, the rear of the aluminum iMacs. Compelling the Cupertino-based firm to introduce radical revisions across its notebook lines at this juncture are two primary factors. The first is the company's industrial design cycle, which typically spans 18-24 months. Neither the MacBook nor MacBook Pro have undergone an aesthetic or structural revision since adopting Intel chips back in the first half of 2006, meaning both will sport outdated outfits by Apple's design standards come mid-year. The design of the MacBook Pro is particularly dated, having been introduced in January of that year with a form factor largely reminiscent of the late PowerBook G4, only 20 percent slimmer. MacBooks, arguably the fresher of the two lines, saw the most significant overhaul of all Intel-bound Macs systems just a few months later with their robust, magnetic-latching enclosures. (

Provided coverage and details of both design revisions (MacBook Pro. 1, 2. MacBook. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5) in the months leading up to their respective introductions.) Also paving the way for redesigned enclosures at this time are logic-board changes on the part of Intel that offer Apple the opportunity to reassess and slightly modify the notebooks' internals. Both the MacBook and MacBook Pro are to receive "Montevina"-based processors from the chipmaker's upcoming Centrino 2 platform, which require a new "Socket B" logic-board. The second-gen mobile Penryn chips will boast a 1066MHz front-side bus and clock between 2.26GHz and 2.8GHz.

Intel's roadmap calls for Montevina to splash down this June, around the same time Apple will host its annual developers conference in San Francisco. However, it's unclear at this time whether the Mac maker will use that forum to showcase its new notebook designs, or reserve their unveiling for a different stage at a slightly later date. Although Apple has been amongst the first PC manufacturers to adopt Intel's latest mobile technologies over the past two years, there's often a window period of several weeks (or months) between the chipmaker's formal announcements and the arrival of supporting Mac systems. Therefore, it's believed volume shipments of Montevina-based Mac notebooks won't take place until sometime during the third calendar quarter of the year, which spans July through Sept. Nevertheless, Apple has been on a tear as of late when it comes to notebook sales momentum, and the new models are only expected to accelerate that growth. According to the most recent data from research firm NPD, sales of Mac notebook systems in the US retail sector rose 64 percent year-over-year for the month of February, compared to an average 20 percent increase for the rest of the industry. While awaiting new MacBooks and MacBook Pros in the third quarter, Apple enthusiasts will have a pair of other major product launches to anticipate. First and foremost will be a complete refresh of the company's desktop computer families, which will include iMac and Mac mini systems built around current generation Core 2 Duo mobile processors based on Intel's Penryn architecture. Also expected within the next 60 days is an eagerly anticipated update to the company's iPhone handset that will operate on third-generation wireless networks, which promise speed increases of up to 10X for Internet-related functions.

Laptop or notebook computers have entered the 21st century with an ever-growing list of features. More and more, workers who move around a lot are using laptops in place of unwieldy desktop systems. The popularity of the laptop is growing exponentially as more people have a need for portability of information. Many occupations require that material that be conveniently prepared, stored, transported and displayed on a laptop. Taking your work home is also easier on the laptop computer. The laptop requires much less space than a desktop and offers the convenience of sitting in a comfortable recliner, lounging outdoors, or making use of time spent in flight. You can even enjoy gaming while traveling.

The features to consider in the purchase of a laptop will be determined largely by the purpose for buying the computer. If you do a lot of networking, the best way to go is wireless. Wi-Fi is available in most hotels and in many restaurants for the convenience of the patrons. You can surf the Internet, download, or upload information as needed with a wireless setup. If necessary, you can purchase a wireless broadband service and card that will allow you to connect literally anywhere your cellphone reaches! At Newegg. com we offer the lowest prices on a wide variety of laptop computer systems. We carry laptops from manufacturers like Lenovo, ASUS, HP, Sony VAIO, Acer, Toshiba, Apple and others. If you do a lot of graphics or games, or want to watch your DVDs, you'll need a top-quality graphics card and a large enough hard drive to hold it all. Hard drive sizes and the processor speed will vary considerably among the various notebook brands. Let us help you find the laptop that you will use for years to come.

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Treams, lakes, and other bodies of water are affected by what happens in their watersheds -- the land areas that drain to them. More and more people are working to improve and protect Pennsylvania's watersheds, by learning about their watersheds and sharing that information with their neighbors, by restoring water quality through hands-on projects, and by planning for future water resources management. Watershed Notebooks

Atershed Notebooks bring together information on Pennsylvania's watersheds. Watersheds are as varied in size as their streams, from the smallest brook to the Susquehanna River! For these notebooks, we are using the 104 watersheds from Pennsylvania's State Water Plan. The State Water Plan, originally developed in the 1970s, divided Pennsylvania's major river basins into 20 smaller units (subbasins) for planning purposes. Most of these subbasins are further divided into watershed areas (designated A, B, C etc.) that range in size from about 100 to 1000 square miles. Whether the watershed you are interested in is smaller or larger than these, the Watershed Notebooks will give you a starting point for exploring your watershed--gathering information and connecting with other projects in your area.

Ach notebook includes a main page that briefly describes the watershed and links to three other pages. (1) population data and projections. (2) information from state and federal agencies about activities in the subbasin. and (3) information about citizens' groups' activities in the watershed, along with a form for sending us information about YOUR project for posting to the page.

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Notebooks, manufactured by Modo and Modo of Italy, based on a design by a small stationer in Tours, France. The standard Moleskine Notebook measures 9 x 14cm and features the following. lightweight, acid-free paper, a foldable pocket in the back cover, a cloth ribbon attached to the spine to serve as a bookmark, and a woven elastic band attached to the back to keep the book closed when not in use. The name (officially pronounced mol-a-skeen-a, although it can vary) comes from the French spelling of 'moleskin', which the oilcloth covering resembles, and is a trademark of Modo and Modo. This small, pocket-sized notebook has picked up a remarkable following among professional and aspiring writers, artists, designers and diarists. This is in part due to a marketing campaign by Modo and Modo to claim that the moleskine's design was used by many famous writers and artists of the 19th and 20th Centuries. Such a pedigree might not be enough, for the casual consumer, to justify the notebook's premium retail price (approximately US$10-12). Contemporary fans of the Moleskine, however, also cite its slim size and design features as useful for writing 'on the go', especially for travel purposes.

Much of the Moleskine mystique may be attributed to Modo and Modo's marketing campaign, which cites a literary and artistic pedigree that seems quite fantastic. According to the pamphlet included in each Moleskine notebook, many famous writers and artists have used moleskine-style notebooks. The consumer should bear in mind that Modo and Modo's claims are based on the Moleskine's original design, and not the Modo and Modo product. Included in the list of 'users' are the following.

Bruce Chatwin ( us. ) - He described his notebooks in detail in his book The Songlines (and is responsible for naming them 'les carnets moleskines'). He purchased his notebooks from a stationery store in Paris, who was supplied by a stationer in Tours, France, until the stationer closed down in 1986 due to the death of its owner. Chatwin's notebooks are the basis for the Modo and Modo product. the company's website quotes extensively from The Songlines.

Luis Seplveda (1949- ) - The other author quoted on Modo and Modo's website, Seplveda describes the occasion when Chatwin gave him a moleskine notebook in his book Full Circle (1996). Interestingly enough, he describes the notebook itself as 'the kind preferred by writers such as Cline and Hemingway'. It's not clear if Chatwin told him this, or if he is quoting from Modo and Modo's later marketing hype.

Ernest Hemingway ( us. ) - In the opening essay of his memoir A Moveable Feast (1964 posthumous publication), Hemingway describes working on a short story in a Paris caf. He writes the story in a notebook which fits in the inside pocket of his coat. It's not clear if the notebook was a moleskine design, since Hemingway doesn't give a detailed description, but his essay 'A Good Caf on the Place Saint-Michel', is the basis for Modo and Modo's claim.

Vincent Van Gogh ( us. ) - Seven pocket sketchbooks are kept at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. a picture of one of these books appears on the Moleskine website. Since the book pictured has a cloth band attached as well as a hidden pocket that can barely be seen in the back cover, it could be said to be a 'moleskine' design. but it's not clear if the book was manufactured by the same stationer who made Chatwin's notebooks, or if the book was made by another stationer.

There is one writer who gives a qualified endorsement of the actual Modo and Modo product. Author Neil Gaiman states his liking of the notebook in the 23 September, 2001, entry of his weblog. Modo and Modo have also tried to show the Moleskine's appearance in TV and films, which has led to one of their most ludicrous claims. that the 'Grail Diary' of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade was a Moleskine. The only basis for this claim is the use of a cloth elastic to hold the Grail Diary closed. in actuality the Diary was a custom-made prop.

The ideal writing instrument for the standard size notebook will have a fine point (ie a maximum of 0.7mm). Either pen or pencil will work nicely.

If you're using the notebook as a creative writing aid, Bruce Chatwin recommended numbering each page for use as a reference guide.

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On August 12, 1982, I took a 10 x 7 1/8 inch National Blank Book Company composition book from the supply closet of my then employer, Vignelli Associates. From that moment, I have never been without one. I always have one at my desk. I take one with me to every meeting. I am now in the middle of Notebook #85. It's in front of me right now. Together, these well-worn books create a history of my working life that spans three decades.

I tend to be obsessive-compulsive, and I am very picky about the notebooks. No fancy Moleskines for me, just standard-issue office supply composition books.

I use them in order. Tibor Kalman once asked me why I didn't have a different notebook for every project. I have to admit, this would be more useful. But I don't. I fill each one up and then move to the next one, the projects all jumbled together. Starting with the third one, every one of them is numbered. Except for two at the very beginning that used gridded paper, they have blank, unlined pages. I hate gridded paper (but not as much as lined paper.) There have been times when it's been really difficult to get unlined composition books, which I gather are oddly unpopular. One time I found a supplier who would only sell them in bulk and I bought a whole boxful. I thought these would last the rest of my life, but I gave a lot away, which I regret. Now they're gone.

Covers of Notebook #25 (September 20, 1993 to May 14, 1994) and Notebook #26 (May 18 to August 24, 1994)

Santa Cruz fashion catalog color studies in Notebook #3 (to November 21, 1983 to December 6, 1984). Note hideous gridded paper

Looks like a designer's sketchbook, doesn't it? These are ideas for a poster to promote a friend's production of the Sam Shepard play Fool for Love, a contemporary western about a disfunctional relationship. Pages like this, where I seem to be methodically working through a series of options, are actually fairly rare in the notebooks. I must have been stuck somewhere with nothing else to do. The final poster looked nothing like any of these sketches.

These are more typical of the kinds of drawings you find in the notebooks. They were done in one of the early planning meetings for Disney's new town of Celebration, Florida. In meetings with lots of people around a table, you can take notes and sketch without attracting much attention. (This is especially true if you're a graphic designer surrounded by a lot of architects.) Unlike the Fool for Love sketches, this one turned out more like the sketch.

The notebooks function like a security blanket for me. I can't go into a meeting unless I have my current notebook in my hand, even if I never open it. Because I carry one everywhere, I tend to misplace them a lot. Losing one makes me frantic. Everyone who works with me gets used to me asking, "Have you seen my notebook anywhere?" which I assume gets irritating after a while. sorry. I've left them behind in clients' offices. On one occasion, I left one on the roof of a cab on the upper west side. I ended up walking ten blocks, retracing the taxi's route, until I found it on Broadway at 63rd Street, intact except for some tire marks.

Only twice have I lost notebooks and never found them. One was left behind somewhere in the sprawling corporate headquarters of United Airlines in Elk Grove, Illinois. The other, #45, disappeared at Heathrow Airport. That particular loss was extra sad since it contained a drawing my then 13-year-old daughter Liz did that she claims is the original sketch for the Citibank logo. (She changed the t in Citi into an umbrella. of course, Paula Scher may have already had that idea.)

Cover sketch for "Tibor Kalman, Perverse Optimist" in Notebook #42 (November 24 1997 to March 10 1998)

Museum of Arts and Design sketches (left) and Libeskind monograph sketches (right) in Notebook #82 (October 22, 2007, to February 2, 2008)

The markings in the notebooks are often a kind of terse shorthand that I don't think would be comprehensible to anyone but me. On one hand, the sketches for the Museum of Arts and Design identity on the left are pretty clear. (I was really infatuated with that alphabet and filled pages with it for weeks, not that different from my binge on bubble letters in the second grade.)

The last page of my notebook is traditionally the place where I write down things I have to do. proposals to write, phone calls to answer, upcoming presentations. I cross them off as I get them done, as a lot of other people do, which is satisfying. I also shove a lot of stray ephemera into the pages, as well as the occasional treasure, like the 32-year-old snapshot of my wife Dorothy that I carried around for a few months before writing about it here on Design Observer.

When I look at these notebooks, many of the references bring back memories, some decades old. But other times I frankly can't remember why I was writing these things down. Did I ever call Dilland? Whatever happened to Executive Sign? What was the Lefand Alliance? In many ways, the act of notetaking and sketching is an end in itself for me. Many of these pages, filled with trivia as they are, are destined never to be looked at a second time.

That makes the occasional encounter with life beyond the office all the sweeter. Growing up, my kids knew they weren't supposed to draw in my notebooks, but that never stopped them. Thank God. I have them to thank for my favorite pages.

I love these! i have an obsessive disorder with notebooks too except i can't bring myself to write in them and ruin them. i have TONS of blank notebooks, sketch books, journals, tiny books, big books etc. full of nothing. i will take one off the shelf with full intentions of giving it a purpose but will usually stare at it for a few days until i put it back. if i do write in one i will usually rip out the pages later. i love your books and it makes me want to conquer my fear of ruining notebooks so that i could have such a wonderful collection of random thoughts and processes over my lifetime! i think i'll grab one of those books off of the shelf tonight! thanks, lauren

Notebooks are great because they allow designers to do what they do best—think visually. Hand-drawing and sketching is becoming a lost discipline as designers turn too fast to technology to foster their own ideation. The notebook is the place to quickly capture seeds of ideas before they get lost in the noise. And overtime, our notes and doodles yield insights into the way we think, organize our world, and respond to others—insights that we can learn from. Nice post. And, there's nothing wrong with a Moleskin.

This is a great post and solidifies why designers should have notebooks. Sometimes the best ideas are done when you are at the starting point, the floodgates when ideas are pouring out and you worry about nothing. It allows you to think freely, open your mind to anything and for me, it is one of the most inspiring parts of the process. Thank You.

Blasphemy, Michael – all artists must use design-chic notebooks! This is a great post – I'm always intrigued by a designer's process. Oh and nice handwriting.

I've definitely looked back over my notebooks and discovered little trails of thoughts that led to more substantial work or ideation later. I've also learned a ton about how I work as a human being (and that's only in the past five or so years that I've kept notebooks of my own). You said something so important there too. Let what happens in your books happen. Like your kids drawings. How precious are those drawings? Now, to find those two lost Bierut notebooks.

My notebooks are very similar, in the sense that they are organized by day and thought instead of project. I rarely find myself going back to look up meeting notes or sketches. I've put a lot of thought into it. Though it seems unorganized, I think the act of writing everything down helps me stay organized internally. I save them all, but never considered numerically ordering them. Its interesting to see other designer's organizational methods.

This is wonderful. I should start collecting all my post it's. I have used post it's a my notebook for years. They are the best invention. I find them stuck everywhere and crumpled in my pockets—all scribbled up with tiny little ideas.

Michael, I first read about your notebooks in Debbie Millman's How to Think Like a Great Graphic Designer. Thanks so much for showing some of them here! A few years ago I started my own notebook habit. I mostly use 7" x 10" Cachet sketch books, with plain white paper. I use them for both sketches and writing, and put different type foundry stickers on the covers to tell them apart.

Wonderful post. You've made me feel a bit more self-conscious of my own note keeping tendencies. I happen to just grab one of the books piled on my desk in no particular order and with no particular reason on any particular day (not very particular am I?). My notebooks are more confusing than the notes in them are worth these days. I need to be a bit more stringent and stick with one, perhaps this will be the motivation.

That's real great! There must be other designers, including myself, who have pictures of their notebooks too! But since I am quite new to the game, I only have three. Nice post!

Years ago I worked in an structural engineering company, the president always had this thing for plain sprial notebooks at first its was odd because I have lived with a sketchbook of one shape or size all my life, then it struck me as I was oding more an more freelance work on the side..the holly grail was the notebook. I went through all sorts of them, then I made the move from the sprials to the same ones you use, perfect size perfect eveything. I still have sletch books around but they magically last longer and they are not the firs thing I grab anyone. The plain ole blank composition book is the way of the force!!

Great post. I'm sure that, over the years, these notebooks will be not only a collection of your ideas, but also a commentary on how design has evolved over your career. You should think about submitting them in one of those design magazines that showcases personal notebooks and sketchbooks of designers --- how great would that be?

Great inspiring post. at the start of my design odyssey, i yearned to someday have a stack of notebooks like that.or one even bigger that would hold my ceiling up (not that it's all about the stack and/or quantity, but fun to think about when you're young and dumb). i kept up with sketchbooks my first few years as it was easy for me to indeed keep up with them when i was a janitor. but i've fumbled more recently and found that pants and shirt pocket sized scraps of paper do the trick. though, i tend to just throw them in a box on the edge of the kitchen table or dresser, instead of actually looking at them. thanks so much. -djg

Great post! I'm only on notebook #3, but I'm hooked. can't go anywhere without it. Now only if I could put some good research ideas in it!!

A wonderful post. I too am a notebook addict. The problem is remembering what is in each. What is made clear is the continued archival value of marks on paper. You can always go back to those old notebooks even if you cannot access the old floppy disks or zip drives.

I sincerely wish I could find good unlined notebooks, either unlined composition books like these or spiral-bound notebooks that kids use for school, except unlined. Moleskines are ok, but I find the paper too thick for my taste, and their bindings are not flexible enough for me. I'd prefer an inexpensive, flexible, spiral bound notebook. I wish I could find them!

Thanks, Michael. I'm definitely not a designer. More an account planner type, but my favorite designer colleague turned me on to notebooks several years ago. It's inspiring to know that there are so many others out there who record their thoughts this way. Thank you for sharing and inspiring. Jake

I am a teacher (fine art adjunct-land for the past eight years) as well as a new student of design. I mention this because I both participate in and observe the design classroom. While I believe that process and a drawing practice are valuable—it happens to be how I work—it's not the only way. I’ve noticed that a lot of kids find the sketchbook assignment ("Just draw a little every day.") daunting because they think it must be filled with attractive pictures. Clearly there are successful designers (and I know wonderful fine artists as well) whose sketchbooks are filled almost exclusively with writing, to-do lists, and random notes. I almost sent this post to my design teacher until I realized that he’d ignore the message of the text—“I don’t do things the ‘right’ way”—and just incorporate the images in his sketchbook lecture, further homogenizing the perception of what it means to be a designer. Interestingly, the representation of 85 notebooks filled almost entirely with writing are the aberrant pictures. I’m glad the writing in the notebooks has been represented in the writing of the post.

This is great. I wrote a book about journals, Drawing from Life, which includes some designers' journals but also those of musicians, gardeners, filmmakers, travelers, etc. Much of what you say is mirrored in the interviews I did. the specificity of paper/size/lines or not. the lost journals (one woman's reappeared in Delta's lost and found after THREE years!). the journal read by a prying friend/lover/parent. the notebooks that SHOULD look interesting b/c supposedly you're a creative genius but are rather filled with notes and numbers. Wonderful first-person take on it.

You had me at the word "notebooks", as notebooks so happen to be a slight bit of an obsession for me. At 18, I probably 50-60 college ruled type books, which I've used all my life. I also have a good 15 or more notebooks of other styles and journals, some of which I've handmade from recycled products. Whenever I see a journal or notebook that is well designed, I buy it. I figure I'll fill them up, soon enough..) xoxo, S-C

Great post Michael! I first read about your notebooks and obsessive compulsive behavior (including the one where you HAVE to run!) in How to think like a great graphic designer by Debbie Millman, and it's really great to have a peek inside those notebooks! You can buy the unruled compositions books here. Keep posting and happy notebook-filling!

As much as I love the marks made in a notebook.I can honestly say I'm really tired of 1. Obsessive compulsive behavior. I think people are starting to obsessively become obsessive compulsive on purpose. 2. Seeing people's moleskines, collages, sketches, thought processes. They all blend together now. Just thought I'd be honest.

Note to Katharine Evans. look for the classic french Clairefontaine notebooks. Wirebound and flexible, but school supply sturdy, I believe they come in plain sheets and various sizes. I have a good dozen, going back several years. I switched once when I couldn't find the composition book I had been using. I have to admit to an insistance on gridded paper (sorry michael). But then my notes are rarely visual and the habit started in science classes.

I was given a notebook by my employer to record idea and information, and use to keep track of the many ongoing projects, during my early years. All staff were asked to keep a notebook since we had lots of projects ongoing. Since the employer gave me the notebook and the work related to what I did at that company - I left the notebooks. Creative types may want to keep company and personal notebooks separate (including those with outside off company hours design projects) to avoid legal conflicts about creative development licensing.

Great post - I've been searching for a good consistent (and cheap!) sketch/notebook for years, and this might work for me. I've settled partly on moleskines because they are easy to carry around, but they are too expensive for day-to-day use (I'd use quad-ruled steno pads - but I'm always losing pages). I'd prefer something closer to the size of my 9x12 sketchbooks, but not as cumbersome - and I don't need heavy paper. I predict a run on unruled composition books in the near future.

Excellent post. Thank you. i started w/ bristol city council diaries in 2003. now i'm on the small moleskines 27 notebooks later. i usually have 2 notebooks on the go. my everyday one, complete w/ jottings, musings, ideas, to-do's and bits of life. The other is what i call my investment moleskine. i only put things, creations, concepts and ideas that i believe have a value and could turn into spiritual satisfaction or hard cash. is working so far. keep up the writing

I think it's funny that your third notebook started on my birthday. Not sure why, just the idea of you opening a fresh book as I came into the world is funny to me. Really great post, these insider/behind the scenes things are always intriguing.

I thought of throwing away some old notebooks of mine, but now i am DEFINITELY keeping them!! Thanks for a wonderful post.

Nice! Now I feel inspired to spend more time writing in my notebooks, and less time jotting stuff down on the computer. There's little more satisfying that writing down to-do lists by hand. I'm few years and 4 books into my personal choice of notebook, the 5.5x8.5 spiral bound Canson sketch book. They're quite perfect, if you ask me.

I love your stack of notebooks, the fact that they are records of work rather than whimsical only adds to their beauty. I'm doing 101 things in 1001 days and Goal 010 is to carry a notebook and camera with me everywhere. I think it's a habit that is going to stay with me even after the end of my 1001 days. I'd love to be able to take a picture of my own stack of notebooks someday!

When i was going through my divorce and moving out of the home, I had to make the travels, not through my notebooks, but through moving boxes full of stuff just like this in the basement. I'm not that organized to keep notebooks as a housewife. I separated the kids' journals and artworks from mine and put them into new waterproof containers on shelves. (funny, they had a sump pump overflow in the house just a few months after that). Then i took all the looseleaf pages, things that looked like exact replicas of your "i love you daddy pages" and put them in a separate old cardboard box, eventually placing them on my estranged husband's massive mahogany desk two floors above. Had the estranged been a design major he probably would have recognized the patterns, but alas he is a business engineer and must have seen something else than my eye. I think the last time (two years later) that I looked they were still in the box in the corner of a closet without any mention to me of my saving them after all those years. I'm just glad that you are writing about yours. Maybe as a guy it's not as easy to write about these graphic tchotchke (?) scribblings. Graphic tchotchke isn't the right word, is it?.. a trinket that is decorative rather than functional. No, it is not. It just takes good looking and time to see that the function(role) of parenting evident on those last pages trumps the decorative titles every time.

Great work Michael. I've used standard lined 84 page project planners for close to 10 years now. I'm on book #32. I write/draw/configure/conceptulize everything that happens as it happens. To-dos, To-dont's, project ideas, c-logs(conversation logs) inspirations, goals. I date each day with the city I'm in, the time and day of the week. And although I sometimes write between the lines. Often I don't see the lines. It's a constant stream of life to pass-on. As Jim Rohn says, "keep your books, your pictures and your notebooks(journals). These are the things that matter.

Great post, Michael. I am as well always carrying around some sort of blank book with to-do lists, doodles, schedules, and notes but my selection of books to encase them in is a bit more random. I love the composition books you use and also the other readers suggestion as well. To do item for today. find my signature notebook.

You remind me of how much I like the plain old composition notebook! Loved the views of your inner pages.

I am a big fan of this article. I have always loved to have something to write all of my random thoughts and notes in, so that they don't get lost. There is no worse feeling to me than not being able to remember an idea that struck me as great when I thought of it. I do not always have my notebook with me, but I am going to start carrying it with me all the time because of this article. I started my collection when I was in high school. I was quite often very bored in class and I would do my drawings and doodles in them. I look back at them now and I realize that some of my ideas were quite good, others not so much, but they can't all be winners now can they. My notebook of choice is unlined Moleskin, they are sturdy and I have always thought they just looked perfect for the job of containing my thoughts and ideas. When I pull back the elastic strap holding one of my old notebooks shut I get excited to see what it contains and what I can learn from it. Thanks for the great post, and motivating me to get back to keeping my notebooks on me at all times.

Notebook. The difference between real designers and this. (Ideas, communication, notes from talking to the client, strategy). Fantastic post Michael. After 7 years I'm up to #22. (not counting the A3 one under my bed!)

Beautiful post. You inspired me to think more about how we use notebooks, and write about it on my own blog. Thanks!

I've always used notebooks to sketch design ideas, write endless to-do lists, scraps of poetry, books I really must read, musica I have to search out, ideas for unwritten novels and even permanent records of favourite text messages from people who matter to me. I was starting to change my attitude about keeping hold of these books when I began to cohabit with my minimalist fiance, who keeps everything on computer and thinks notebooks are cluttersome and outmoded. Thank you, then, for this post and to all those kindred spirits who commented. It has encouraged me to continue to save these collections of my thoughts and experiences, and to continue to write, write, doodle, write.

This is a great post who would thought there would be more like me enjoying the benefits of notebook. I cant go without it never every idea thought concept drawing it go's all there I started with it in 1997 on to this day, I have to admit some barely survived the years past but still in a good enough shape to see what I've been doing. Really can recommend a notebook to anyone walking with idea's and such you'll never regret jolting down anything it also helps prevent repetition of what is though of before reinventing the wheel again and again and again sorry for that but notebooks are my not electronic battery hungry devices.

Michael, Amazing. I, along with many here, also share the notebook frenzy. Mine are 5x7 leather, and the first thing I hear when I use it for the first time becomes the title, which I carve on the cover. Unfortunately, many have obscenities (oh the days of art school). Although, I've noticed that since writing down everything, my memory has gotten increasingly poor. I start to rely on it as if it were a part of my brain. This concerns me on numerous levels. Thanks again for sharing your books! -Michelle

Wonderful post. As a design student I have been “required” to keep sketch/notebooks for years, but I feel as it’s more forced, not something that I ever kept up beyond the required. Seeing your use of notebooks and the opportunity to have a type of time capsule of your work is incredible and very inspiring. I was wondering if you have thought about creating a large book of all your different notebooks? I think it would be incredible at book #100 to have a “reference” of all the past notebooks, something like that would be extremely helpful for design students like myself.

Michael, This is a great post. It is good to see the process which is often neglected by tech savvy young designers. I recently became aware that some design programs have eliminated graphic design history. For some reason they want nothing to do with the growth of design. Your notebooks are records that design starts way before technology is even considered for production. Not long ago a friend email me info about a former graphic designer who left the field to work on his art. One thing that caught my attention was what this artist calls, his "red book." In it he stores visual elements (that inspire him). I was told that he will make compositions (mainly collages) with all the items in the red book, photographs it and then takes it apart and puts the items back in the red book. This is so different from having multiple sketchbooks or notebooks. Would love to see this book years from now along with his compositions. I was told that he rarely shares his art with the public. Here's a short slide show showing part of his red book.

I enjoyed this post because I LOVE notebooks. I find I love decorating the covers more than writing or drawing at times though. I have a passion for notebooks. Oh the possibilities, lol which is the problem. I don't want to write in some of most favorite ones! Though when I do class projects I buy more spiral notebooks and keep each class in its own book. And at the beginning of each project I do come up with fully formed ideas and sketches. I also love coming back years later and getting ideas or reuse some of my old ideas. I love the composition books the best. I love to decorate those thick covers. Thanks for this awesome post..)

Yay! I'm on track to beat you in... 21 years time *sigh*.-P. Admittedly my notebooks aren't near as thick or beautifully filled as yours tho.-P. They look amazing! GJ on keeping all those! I LOVE NOTEBOOKS!

Mr. Beirut, Notebooks are to our selves as the dish rags and towels in the sink are to the kitchen. Look ragged and used in the end, but contain lots of stuff that will go down the drain.

I wouldn't worry about not keeping notebooks. I only start to and fail because of ingrained Catholic school behavior modification guilt and subsequent flashbacks. Now on average I move about every two years in my life and i constantly find envelopes that are written with doodles and poetry on the backs. I can accurately place the date 90% of the time from what i've created by just looking at it. Usually test myself by turning it over and checking a postmark. Mental workout for the notebook impaired. And I've been recycling all those unrecyclable envelopes even when it wasn't fashionable to be green.

A comment from an Industrial Designer, if you don't mind.I prefer coil ring notebooks for functional reasons. they fold neatly onto themselves, easier to use without a desk in front of you - or on a plane, etc. I'm only on #15 however.

Michael Great notebooks! A friend asked me last year to do a show of my letterform design and other work for her students at Clarke College in Dubuque. As I've been in the middle of trying to build a new business, I told her I'd only have time to show sketchbooks! I scanned pages from my small 3x5 Strathmore wirebound pads, enlarged them and printed a series of 13x19 broadsheets. Photo archive is here, if anyone's interested! Cheers, Peter Fraterdeus

Thanks for this inspirational posting on notebooks. It's an area I'm researching towards helping people who work in museums and libraries to further develop creative projects.

Michael, What a wonderful post! I also share your obsession for notebooks, although I was never lucky enough to find the unlined composition books. I use the 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 bound blank sketchbooks for the same purpose. I can't seem to pass by a display of them without buying one, so I have a few empty ones on hand. My one rule is that I can't go on to a new one until I've filled up the current one, which sometimes takes a while. The discipline of keeping it around is a reminder to draw, sketch, record ideas and favorite quotes, write, keep track of music I like and so on. This whole process is doubly valuable to me as I have been loving every minute of practicing those basic (boring, perhaps) drawing skills that I let fall by the wayside in the busyness of life. Thanks so much for this inspiring post!

My notebook addiction is to A4 Challenge Double Cash - ruled. I am on volume 6 and they started out of a running log tracking daily mileage and subjective assessment of effort, conditioning, weather, footwear. As I got older and fatter this transformed into an art journal and book review/commonplace book. Including quotes, postcards, ideas, venting, prayer, and every so often, even now, a little run.

Great post, Bierut, and magnificent that you have kept them all (well, almost !). The image of you scouring ten blocks of the Upper West Side would fit well into a movie, don't you think ? As for obsessive-compulsive, I can't say whether YOU are or not, obviously. Nor is it my business. Nor can I judge how many notebook-keepers/journalers are obsessive-compulsive as a psychiatrist would understand that term. BUT I must say I have sympathy with Rick Fox. It seems to be an increasing trend, in real life as well as in cyberspace, to frame any kind of passion as obsessive-compulsive or as an addiction. Addictions ruin lives, the lives of the addicts and often the lives of those around them. I don't think my husband is about to move out because I am passionate about notebooks, journals and scrapbooks ! I haven't had to break the law in order to support this activity. Nor have I got into bazillions of debt trying to do so. THAT is addiction. And I'm not saying obsessive-compulsive behavior isn't real because I know it is, and I know how difficult it can be for anyone with that condition. But to use those words loosely (I don't mean YOU, Bierut, i don't think you are doing this) is to trivialize a serious and often disabling problem. It's like someone saying they're depressed because they've missed the bus. As someone who has been in the pits of clinical depression more than once, I find that use of the word depressed offensive but also, frankly, laughable. I think most of the people here LOVE notebooks. Great ! We get a lot of satisfaction from them, and it can be fun (as with all passions) sharing that satisfaction with like-minded folks. WE ARE NOT SICK. . . Or are we ?.)

I used these notebooks exclusively in grad school (architecture) and don't know why i stopped. must pick up a new one or three. being an architect, i do love the grid lines, but blank pages are better in the end! i personally love the thin-ness of the paper in these books too -- you can see thru vaguely to other drawings and words, which i simply love.

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