NOTE BOOK

Definition: A notebook (also known as a notepad, writing pad, drawing pad, or legal pad) is a book or stack of paper pages.Purpose: Notebooks are often ruled and used for purposes such as note-taking, journaling, writing, drawing, or scrapbooking.History: The earliest form of notebook was the wax tablet, used as a reusable and portable writing surface in classical antiquity and throughout the Middle Ages.Materials: The leaves of some notebooks were made of donkey skin; others had leaves of ivory or simple pasteboard.Erasability: The coating was made from a mixture of glue and gesso, and modern-day experiments have shown that ink, graphite, and silverpoint writing can be easily erased from the treated pages with the application of a wet sponge or fingertip.Variety: Other types of notebooks may also have been in circulation during this time; 17th-century writer Samuel Hartlib describes a table-book made of slate.Usage: Notebooks were owned by all classes of people, from merchants to nobles, and were employed for a variety of purposes. Meer lezen Snelle levering vanuit Nederland.