I first saw this little notebook at a newly founded office supplies store in Kharkiv, Ukraine in November of 1997.
It’s made in Germany, and imagine the quality if the colors are still bright and the notebook is very usable almost three decades later.
My father bought it for me through the bank account of his company. We had an incipient banking system back then in Ukraine, which was glitchy and prone to all sorts of extreme scams and abuses. Nobody took it very seriously as a result. The money that you had in your bank account wasn’t real money because it could disappear at any moment.
The little notebook would have been very expensive if we’d paid for it in cash, but since the store accepted bank payments for some bizarre reason, the price was very acceptable.
I used the notebook to record everything I read.
In 2009, I switched to a Word document because it’s more easily searchable. I’m now planning to transfer all of the records from the notebook into the file to bring all of my readings from the past 30 years together.
The pages in the photo above reflect the readings that I was doing as a college student in Canada. These were are all assigned readings, and going over the list today brings back those days with exceptional vividness.
I know the exact number and titles of books I have read in 30 years. I am extremely weird.
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