On average, the typical A5 sized notebook (Leuchtturm, Hobonichi, Stalogy, Moleskine, Midori, Clairefontaine, Apica, Kleid, etc. ranging from 192 to 368 pages) has an equivalent square footage of writing surface to the front (only) of about 420 4 x 6 inch index cards. On a cost basis, for the same amount of money, on average one can buy 1,200 index cards for what they’re shelling out for equivalent notebooks.
Notes
Incidentally, if you’re still into the old-school library card catalog cards, Demco still sells the red ruled cards!
Micro.blog Analog Tools Meetup January 2024. 🖊️🗃️📓☕
I was just a few blocks from the nursing home going to see him when I got the call that he had passed away at 9:44 AM. After spending much of the last 4 years with severe dementia, its a relief that he’s left us, undoubtedly for a better place.
His memory will be a blessing.
Good News! My book is still appearing Jan 16, 2024, but now you can get 35% off using the code below! pic.twitter.com/nfDSmj5Rzz
— Chris Adami (@ChristophAdami) November 20, 2023
I picked up a pair of Pilot Pens for reading and writing notes in the dark on late winter nights. 🖊️🗃️📚
Why not?
On the seventh day of the siege of Jericho, the Ark of the Covenant is carried around the city, horns are blown and the walls collapse (Josh 6:20-25).
Extract from Latin Psalter from England – BSB Hss Clm 835, fol. 21r. Oxford, 1st quarter of the 13th century
Source: München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Card Index Expenses 2023
Index card storage (boxes): $404.59
Index cards (3,650 cards) $87.56
Tabbed dividers/accessories $73.05
Total: $565.20
“The only advice, indeed, that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions.”
—Virginia Woolf, How Should One Read a Book? (1932)