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Leave it to the Smithsonian Libraries to have not only an adorable Tumblr presence, but also a delightful collection of vintage GIFs which blend the Internet’s love of moving pictures with everyone else’s love of classic line drawings. A current fascination...

The Ransom Center’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland exhibition includes a commonplace book kept by Charles Dodgson (better known as Lewis Carroll) with information about ciphers, anagrams, stenography, and labyrinths. As Kelsey McKinney, a former public...

Create page Commonplace book New page A '''[[w:Commonplace book|Commonplace book]]''' is a [[w:scrapbook|scrapbook]] used by readers, writers, students, and scholars as an aid for remembering useful concepts or facts they have learned. {{theme-stub...

Commonplace Books as a Source for Networked Knowledge and Combinatorial Creativity by Shane Parrish. From the post: “You know that I voluntarily communicated this method to you, as I have done to many others, to whom I believed it would not be unacceptable...

Last week I stepped out into the backyard at 10 p.m. on a cold, crisp evening. While the dog took care of his business, my eyes wandered up to the night sky and my mind drifted to Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem “Frost at Midnight”: “I was reared/In the...