How did commonplace books contribute to one's understanding of the world and one's place in it?

A wonderful companion for your reading life! Inside you will find space for recording books you have read, reading challenge progress, as well as all your ... Feb 9, 2023 ... I've been copying down favorite quotes and passages from the books I read, compiling research for stories I'm working on, or even drawing the ... Jul 21, 2023 ... Commonplace books are like pegboard: when you need the hammer, the hammer is there, hanging on its hook. Similarly, when you need to speak ... Mar 17, 2015 ... Commonplace books are a delightful activity to record favorite books, authors, quotes, reading notes, poems, Scriptures, anthology of passages, and many other ... Jan 18, 2024 ... Keeping a blog, the modern commonplace book, is a good way to see our own progress. It makes our endeavors have a more tangible manifestation. Feb 18, 2023 ... PKM stands for personal knowledge management, and I want to talk about what that is, why it should matter to Christians, and what it has to do with commonplace ... I did my undergraduate and masters degrees in English Literature (at Exeter and Oxford respectively), and adore books and writing more than anything else. I'm ... Feb 24, 2020 ... A journal is private. A blog is public. But with commonplace books, the benefit ... Oct 1, 2020 ... If it's interesting to you – store it. Commonplace books have been around for centuries and some of the greatest thinkers from the past have ... May 1, 2008 ... The commonplace book arose as a means of mastering or at least fighting off this “multitude of books.” For much of the history of reading and ...