/lit/ - Literature

>>2807767
You already know the book itself is greater than anything you could ever fill it with so just go write on a legal pad or something.

might i ask where you got that beauty from?

>>2807822

>mfw book

But no way OP. That thing is far too gorgeous to write in and potentially ruin. Lock it in a case and admire it from afar.

>>2807832

It cost something like 10 €. It's new. It's cheap " ancient design " stuff. Moleskine is preferred.

>>2807780
>implying any college art student couldn't produce the equivalent with three days of his spare time

>>2807856
>Three days
too much time on your hands

>>2807767
Just make it a diary, and then you'll finally have a reason to live well (so that the pages aren't wasted).

>>2807856
If'n he got the book from a college student he would still feel the same way. The idea that he needs to put something important in a nice looking book has already ossified in his mind as it has in mine. Not in yours though because you don't like ritual. He's having doubts and he knows why. He comes to us and asks us for something to fill it with. Maybe I was being mean. OP, write what you want, what YOU want out on a legal pad and then re-write it into your special book.

>>2807860
>being on /lit/
>not having too much time on your hands

>Buy beautiful books like that
>Get moleskins and shit for my birthday
>"Oh, I won't write in them till I have something worth writing.'
>Fill up loads of shitty legals pads and notebooks

God damn it.
Also working on my handwriting. I want those things to be beautiful on the inside, too.

Why does everyone on this board type like a 15-year-old trying to act grown-up? Cut the fucking pretentious bloated sentences and make comments like a normal human being.

There's no point filling up a notebook with your ramblings, it's never going to mean anything to anyone except perhaps an explanation for your suicide or murder of multiple people at your school. If you want to expand on your interactions with philosophy then go find a club or a person with similar interests and have a discussion.

Food recipes?

> My original intention was to fill it with legio philosophical contemplations and meditations on questions
philosophical contemplations like "Why does no one understand me?", amirite? Why don't you write one of your philosophical contemplations here for us to judge? That way we'll be in a better position to decide whether you'll be degrading the book with your pretentiousa drivel or not.

>>2807886
jesus christ, just fuck off

Those small notebooks are shit.

I stole some nice quality A4 notebooks from work. I write down observations about the places I live and the people around me in them. I wrote on the first page "these notepads are not for whining" just to remind myself in case I ever got tempted.

I have a separate little notepad for that, it is pretty fucking miserable.

Anyway, the way you need to work with notepads is to never correct anything, you just go to a new page and write down what you think now. It isn't a presentation for other people to read and go "oh yes that's correct" it's a place where you ramble on about your thoughts and develop them. Developing isn't correcting.

>>2807767
What a coincidence, I have that exact notebook in your picture right here in my apartment. I bought it for 18 euros at a mall in Barcelona where I was on vacation.
I haven't written anything in it either.

Just write your meditations and thoughts. Countless people have done this, and you can go back and edit them, just annotate neatly in pencil or something. A book of thoughts is something to be treasured for generations to come. Found one from 1868 in a fleamarket t'other day. Was a girl's notebook and she'd written some rather "interesting" thoughts on her romances. The victorians weren't that sexually repressed haha!

>>2807934
Holy shit, that's cool. Where do you live?

>>2807887
er, why?

Just use it for whatever. I have a notepaper that I use to vent utter bullshit whenever somethings on my mind, or think of a line for a poem or I remember a dream and the memory is still in my head or something. It's pointless, but it's very amusing to go back and reread what was on my mind at a certain point in time. Just write shit and then hopefully something clever will come out of it.

Cool book OP. You should give it ot me because I love to write philosophical contemplations in my notebooks.

To be honest, though, you should stick with your plan. You don't have to correct and editorialized philosophy. Just number each thing you write.

>>2807886

I hope you realize how stupid this post makes you look. Even on an Anonymous board.

>>2807939

England, so coming across books from the 18th-19th century is surprisingly easy/cheap. Building an impressive looking library is quite easy and rewarding. That notebook was priced at about £30 cos it was a neatly bound leather tome, she stopped writing 6 months in. No idea why either. She drew too. It's like staring into someone else's soul from hundreds of years ago.

Seriously, people should write down their thoughts more often!