Waste book
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A waste book was one of the traditional books used in bookkeeping, consisting of a diary of all transactions in chronological order. It differs from a daybook in that only a single waste book is maint
Sketch from Kurt Tucholsky's waste book
Commonplace book
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Commonplace books are personal notebooks used to compile any information the owner finds interesting or useful. They can variously contain notes, proverbs, adages, aphorisms, maxims, recipes, quotes,
Waste book
…The use of the waste book has declined with the introduction of double-entry accounting. Waste books were also used in the tradition of the commonplace book and note-taking. A well known example is Isaac Newton's Waste Book in which he did much of the development of the calculus. Another example is that of…
A commonplace book from the mid-seventeenth century
Zibaldone di pensieri, written by the Italian poet Giacomo Leopardi