| Maker's Notebook | 
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Sales Rank: 361586
Category: Book
Author: The Staff Make Magazine
Publisher: Make Books
Studio: Make Books
Manufacturer: Make Books
Label: Make Books
Format: Illustrated
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 176
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.3 x 0.8
ISBN: 0596519419
Dewey Decimal Number: 620
EAN: 9780596519414
ASIN: 0596519419
Publication Date: May 13, 2008
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Product Description
From the creators of Make & Craft Magazine comes the Maker's Notebook. Put your own ideas, diagrams, calculations & notes down in these 150 pages of engineering graph paper. We've also included 20 bonus pages of reference material, from useful stuff like electronics symbols, resistor codes, weights and measures, basic conversions and more, to really useful stuff like the amount of caffeine in different caffeinated beverages and how to say "Hello, World!" in various computer languages. The covers of this hardcover book are printed in cyan "Maker" blue with a white grid debossed front and back. Grab one today!
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ALMOST perfect November 14, 2008
Other reviewers covered the high points -- this is a really nice notebook. It's appealing to us makers who want to add pockets, lights, etc.
A minor mod that we can't make would be to widen the gutter so the pages looked cleaner.
The BEST way to make it better for version 2.0 would be to add an INTERNAL SPIRAL BINDING so it'll stay open on the workbench. This should be the kind where the cover hides the spiral binding when it's closed, so it looks like a normal book on the shelf.
 Disappointment September 26, 2008
This is partly a review of Amazon's format. I already sent my thoughts by an Amazon contact link.
I didn't find anywhere that Amazon described the contents of the book, or other books, even on a second check after I was told there was such. I only found links about options for buying and such. I also wonder where anyone will see this review.
Instead of mostly graph paper, I had expected the whole book to be similar to the information and wisdom of the last few pages. I don't find the graph paper that useful. If I was going to use such, I'd want it on large loose sheets that could lie flat.
Dan Robinson
 pretty good, needs a pen holder August 11, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
It's a good notebook. Not sure how often I'll use the diagrams in the back, but I had visions of reading them during particularly boring meetings. One quibble: they should add an elastic loop to hold a pen. How hard would that be?
 very cool August 6, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I've yet to complete a project yet, but i've drawn up at least 20 good ideas. I went to the website and added the back pocket they described. I love this book.
A very cool and classy way to record your observations and learnings... July 24, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Ok... this might be the most unusual book review I've ever done. I'm about to review a book consisting of... blank pages. Ah, but what blank pages they are! :) It's the Maker's Notebook by O'Reilly Publishing and the staff at MAKE magazine. I was given this as a gift from a friend, and I don't think she could have given me something that appeals more to me on so many levels.
The Maker's Notebook is designed to be a durable, long-lasting lab notebook for your projects and experimentations. As stated in one of the chemistry books I reviewed, it's imperative that you document your work in such a way that it's reproducible as well as leaving a chain of evidence of what you did to get to the final result. While you can do this with a number of blank notebooks, the Maker's Notebook fills the need in a classy way. It's hardbound, so the durability will be better than something with a light cardboard cover. The pages inside consist of graph paper with room at the top for project/idea, date, notes/signature, and a place to record the starting and ending page(s) of the experiment notes. And since each page is numbered, there's never any question as to whether pages have been removed or not. Beyond those core features, there's a touch of the practical and whimsical. There's a built-in ruler on the inside cover that's handy, and the last dozen or so pages have "important" reference information... common weights and measures (and conversion factors), area codes and international calling codes, common glue bonds, the robot laws and rules, caffeine amounts in common caffeinated drinks, common English to 1337 character substitutions, and so forth. Throw in a ribbon to mark your place, a rubber band to hold the book tight and hold loose items, and stickers to brand pages and/or the cover, and you have a complete tool for documentation. There's even a white space on the edge binding so you can write a title and still read it on a bookshelf!
I'll admit I'm a junkie for these types of things. Clean, empty pages... waiting to be filled... so many promises. In this particular case, I plan on using my notebook to take notes as I learn about my new digital SLR camera. I was convinced even before this arrived that I needed to take notes to become good at photography. Now I have the perfect place to put them.
My guess is that even though this is the first Maker's Notebook I have, it won't be my last...
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