We got ourselves a reader
With the continuing popularity of journalling, logging, personal curriculums, and the like, people are always looking for novel and interesting ways to add new content and presentation ideas to their journals.
Dedicate a few pages for each book you read, and consider including:
- copies of images from the book, if there are any.
- a trace of the cover or another visual representation you create yourself by drawing, manipulated photograph, painting, etc.
- a list of the words you like from the book, ones you want to look up too. You could do similar for quotations you like.
- log the thoughts you have regarding material in the book, responses, questions to ask/respond to, etc.
You could:
- put all the words you collect from all the books you read into a jar/box, and at the end of a set period of time (or whenever you feel like it) create a poem or other piece using the collection of words.
- scan and print a page from the book, whichever you prefer, and use that page to create a blackout piece - either blacking out everything but a few select words that create a poem or sentiment, or by doing something more colourful as was done in the book A Humament.
- use a page from the book with the Oulipo N+7 method, and replace every noun with the noun seven nouns after it in the dictionary.