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Meeting Notes Insert

Forty-four minutes pages record what a meeting decided, and seventy-nine ruled pages hold the discussion that got there.

Specification

Trim: 127 × 177.8 mm · 5 × 7 in
Pages: 128
Leaves: 64
Sheets: 32
Signatures: 4 × 32pp
Spine: 7.32 mm
Paper: white
Ruling: lined
Ruling pitch: 7.14 mm · 20.25 pt · 9/32 in
Rows per page: 20

Two people leave the same meeting and remember two different decisions. It happens often enough that forty-four pages here are ruled for nothing but the outcome: what was decided, who owns it, and by when. A meeting without that written down the same day becomes, a week later, whatever the loudest person in the room remembers it as.

Seventy-nine college-ruled pages follow for the part a minutes page was never meant to carry: the argument before the decision, a number someone mentioned in passing, a name to follow up with later. Minutes record what was agreed. They were never built to record how the room got there.

A minutes page does not settle an argument about what was said. It only gives both people something written down closer to the day than either one's memory of it.

What is inside

Minutes: 44pp; What was decided, who owns it, and by when.
Notes: 79pp; College-ruled space for the discussion a minutes page was never built to hold.

The film

Page by page

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

A vertical film, 27 seconds: the ruling page and the figures printed on its last leaf. Synthesised ambient bed, no dialogue — captions in three languages.