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What is a commonplace book, anyway?

Commonplace books are a way to compile knowledge, usually by writing information into books. Such books are essentially scrapbooks filled with items of every kind: recipes, quotes, letters, poems, tables of weights and measures, proverbs, prayers, legal formulas. Commonplaces are used by readers, writers, students, and scholars as an aid for remembering useful concepts or facts they have learned. Each commonplace book is unique to its creator's particular interests. They became significant in Early Modern Europe. (source)

About the Author

Dane is the CEO of the Mariposa County Chamber of Commerce & Visitor Center and the President of the Mariposa County Economic Development Corporation.

Previously, he founded Business Opportunities Weblog in 2001, which was acquired in 2015.