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Travel Insert

Eight ledger pages track what was spent in cash and on card, thirty-six pages carry a travel prompt, and seventy-eight hold whatever neither one covers.

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

Eight pages carry a four-column ledger: date, what for, cash, card. It exists because a shoebox of receipts at the end of a trip tells you less than eight pages filled in as the spending happened, one line at a time.

Thirty-six prompt pages sit behind the ledger, one travel question at the top of each page and the rest left for the answer. Seventy-eight pages of college-ruled notes follow those, for a place, a name, or a detail that does not fit a ledger column or answer a prompt.

The ledger does not total itself, and neither does the trip. Both get added up by hand, later, by whoever is willing to sit down and do it.

What is inside

Ledger: 8pp; Four columns: date, what for, cash, card.
Prompts: 36pp; One travel question at the top of the page, the rest left for the answer.
Notes: 78pp; College-ruled space for a place, a name, or a detail no ledger column or prompt covers.

The film

Page by page

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.

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