Plain Lab · journal
Reading Journal
A short reading list up front, then prompted pages for the books that earned more than a line.
Specification
- Trim
- 148 × 210 mm · 5.827 × 8.268 in
- Pages
- 80
- Leaves
- 40
- Sheets
- 20
- Signatures
- 4 × 20pp
- Spine
- 4.58 mm
- Paper
- white
- Ruling
- lined
- Ruling pitch
- 9.17 mm · 26.00 pt
- Rows per page
- 18
A short list at the front holds what was read and when, nothing more, the kind of record that answers whether a book has already been read faster than scrolling an app.
Prompted pages sit behind it for the books that earned more than a line: what the book argued, what actually stuck a month later, what you'd say about it to someone who asked. Plain notes pages follow for everything a prompt did not think to ask.
It has no star rating and no field for one. What it keeps is closer to what you actually thought, which tends to be worth more than a number a month after the book is back on the shelf.
What is inside
- Reading log
- 6pp
- A short running list of what was read and when, kept apart from the longer notes.
- Prompts
- 24pp
- A prompted page for a book worth more than a line: what it argued, what stuck, what you'd tell someone else about it.
- Notes
- 38pp
- Plain lined pages for the rest, whatever a prompt didn't ask for.
- Reference
- 12pp
- Conversions worked from definitions, plus emergency numbers checked against two sources.
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.
Real pages
Made at the Hibrkraft bindery, Bogor · about the maker
Books that sit alongside it
- Apprentice's JournalWorks alongsideshares personal-writing
- Commonplace InsertWorks alongsideshares note-taking, personal-writing
- Interview JournalWorks alongsideshares note-taking, personal-writing
- Pregnancy JournalWorks alongsideshares personal-writing
Questions
What is on the reading log?
The title, the date, and nothing else: a fast way to check what has already been read.
What do the prompted pages ask?
What the book argued, what stuck, and what you'd tell someone else about it. Not every book needs one filled in.
How big is it?
A5, 148 x 210 mm, 80 pages, 4.58 mm across the spine.
Is it dated?
No. Start it with whatever you are reading now.
Is there a rating system?
No. There is no star field and no scale. What goes on the page is what you actually thought.
Every leisure moment was now employed in reading one thing or another.
