Plain Lab · notebook
Shorthand Notebook
A centre rule divides the page into two narrow columns, 7.06 mm between lines, twenty-four to the page, for a hand fast enough to fall behind nobody.
Specification
- Trim
- 148 × 210 mm · 5.827 × 8.268 in
- Pages
- 120
- Leaves
- 60
- Sheets
- 30
- Signatures
- 6 × 20pp
- Spine
- 6.86 mm
- Paper
- white
- Ruling
- shorthand
- Ruling pitch
- 7.06 mm · 20.00 pt
- Rows per page
- 24
A single rule runs down the centre of the page, splitting it into two narrow columns rather than one wide one. Lines cross both columns at 7.06 mm, twenty-four to a page. The layout does not teach a system of abbreviation; it only gives a fast hand somewhere narrow enough to keep pace with speech rather than transcribe it after the fact.
A column this narrow changes how a line gets used. Long words wrap early or get abbreviated by whoever is writing, and the centre rule stops a line from drifting the full width of the page while a speaker is still talking. What method fills the columns is not printed here and never was.
The rule divides the page. Learning what to put in each column is still on you.
What is inside
- Shorthand pages
- 109pp
- A centre rule dividing two narrow columns, 7.06 mm between lines.
- Reference
- 11pp
- Conversion tables computed from definitions and 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
- Knitting and Crochet Chart NotebookAlso in Plain Lab
- Engineering Computation PadAlso in Plain Lab
- Guitar Tablature NotebookAlso in Plain Lab
- Numbered and Indexed Dotted NotebookAlso in Plain Lab
Questions
Does it teach a shorthand system?
No. The page is ruled into two narrow columns by a centre rule; no method of abbreviation is printed on it.
How is the page divided?
One rule down the centre, splitting the page into two columns, each ruled at 7.06 mm, twenty-four lines to the page.
Why two narrow columns instead of one wide one?
A narrow column keeps a line short enough to write quickly without the hand drifting across the full page width.
Is it dated?
No.
How big is it?
A5, 120 pages, 6.86 mm across the spine.
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