The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper by Roland AllenMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
Tyler Cowen once said that a great challenge for economists is to try to identify the causes of the Renaissance, so they can be replicated in this time and throughout the world (I'm paraphrasing and probably misremembering part of it), and I would argue that this book might have done exactly this.
The argument that plentiful paper helped Giotto and Cimabue for their sketching, and then renaissance bankers for their double-entry book keeping, isn't all that far-fetched.
The rest of the book follows in the same vein, and it inspired me to buy a notebook on my latest outing. We'll see how that goes.
All in all a unique and interesting read.
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