Plain Lab · journal
Reading Journal
A short reading list up front, then prompted pages for the books that earned more than a line.
Price
from Rp 57.000
Softcover, French link sewing. Printed and sewn to order.
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Specification
- Type
- Journal
- 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
- Dating
- Undated
Build it
Rp 57,000
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.
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.
- How to use it
- One page describing this book, not a different one.
- 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 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?
The PDF of this book.
We do not sell the design or the PDF. Download it free, with no conditions at all, not even tracking. What we sell is the book, a real object that is genuinely useful and can help your life.
Download PDF PDF · 80 pages · 0.3 MB
Made at the Hibrkraft bindery, Bogor · about the maker
Books that sit alongside it
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- 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.
Price
from Rp 57.000
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