A5 Lab Notes book standing closed on a plain surface, composition-style cover with a tiled illustration field and a label plate.

Plain Lab · notebook

Lab Notes

One hundred and twenty pages for the record of what you did, and eleven lined pages beside them for what didn't fit a record.

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Specification

Type: Notebook
Trim: 148 × 210 mm · 5.827 × 8.268 in
Pages: 140
Leaves: 70
Sheets: 35
Signatures: 7 × 20pp
Spine: 8.01 mm
Paper: white
Dating: Undated

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A lab record outlives the person who wrote it. Someone else, possibly you in eight months, has to be able to read what was done, when, and in what order, without asking the person who did it. The record pages here hold that: a page per entry, ruled plainly enough to take whatever the entry needs, dated by you rather than by the book.

What the record does not hold is the protocol. A safety threshold, a retention rule, a reagent's disposal window: those come from the lab you work in, and they differ from one lab to the next. A printed book cannot be corrected once it has left the shop, so none of that is printed here. The book records what you did, not what you were allowed to do.

Eleven lined pages sit behind the record for the parts that were never going to fit in an entry. That is as far as the book goes.

What is inside

Lab pages: 120pp; A page per entry, ruled plainly, dated by you rather than printed in advance.
Notes: 11pp; Lined pages for what a record entry doesn't hold.
Reference: 9pp; Conversion tables computed from definitions and emergency numbers checked against two sources.

In every book

The same six pages open every book: your details, who to call, the signs to point at when you have no shared language, and the map. They sit at the front because the moment you need them is not the moment to be flicking through.

This book belongs to: One page for your name and number, so a book that goes missing can come back.
My details: Blood group, allergies, who to call. Written once, carried everywhere.
Emergency numbers: Forty countries, taken from Wikidata property P2852 (CC0), agreed across two sources, every row carrying its QID. Numbers change and a book does not — verify locally on arrival.
Point at this: A pictogram grid captioned in English above and Indonesian below, for when there is no shared language.
World map: Natural Earth 110m, public domain, equirectangular, with UTC hour meridians computed from the projection rather than from a timezone database. For orientation and for pointing at, not a navigation chart.
Conversion tables: Computed from definitions — 25.4 mm to the inch — and not copied from anywhere, so every row can be checked by anyone holding the book.
Pen test leaf: The last page, printed for it on purpose. Every notebook is used this way; printing it deliberately is cheaper than losing the last leaf to it by accident.

The film

Page by page

A vertical film, 52 seconds: the cover, the ruling page, then 5 reference pages. Synthesised ambient bed, no dialogue — captions in three languages.

A vertical film from our own bench — this page contacts nobody's server to play it, and downloads nothing until you press play.

What is inside this book?

Five pages from Lab Notes laid out as cards: a ruled record page, a section divider, a lined notes page, a conversion table, and a reference page. — Five pages rendered from the print file: a record page, a divider, a lined notes page, a conversion table, and the reference section. The record page is the product. A record with no date on it is not something anyone can check against what happened six months later.

Specification card listing Lab Notes contents: 120 record pages, 11 notes pages, 140 pages total, A5 trim, seven signatures of twenty. — One hundred and twenty ruled record pages, dated by you as each entry is made. Eleven lined notes pages follow. Nine pages of reference matter at the back, with conversion tables computed from definitions and emergency numbers checked against two independent sources. One hundred and forty pages total, A5, seven sewn signatures of twenty.

Computed from definitions — 25.4 mm to the inch — and not copied from anywhere, so every row can be checked by anyone holding the book. — Lab Notes — Conversion tables

Forty countries, taken from Wikidata property P2852 (CC0), agreed across two sources, every row carrying its QID. Numbers change and a book does not — verify locally on arrival. — Lab Notes — Emergency numbers

One page for your name and number, so a book that goes missing can come back. — Lab Notes — This book belongs to

A pictogram grid captioned in English above and Indonesian below, for when there is no shared language. — Lab Notes — Point at this

Natural Earth 110m, public domain, equirectangular, with UTC hour meridians computed from the projection rather than from a timezone database. For orientation and for pointing at, not a navigation chart. — Lab Notes — World map

The PDF of this book.

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Questions

Does it print a safety protocol?

No. Thresholds, retention rules and disposal windows come from the lab you work in and differ from one lab to the next. The book records what you did, not what you were allowed to do.