Readers have collected their favorite literary lines for centuries. Now compiling a portable word scrapbook is easier than ever. By J. D. Biersdorfer Feb. 10, 2021 Creating a commonplace book is somewhat like marking your favorite lines in a novel with the Amazon Kindle highlights feature — except your personal one-stop knowledge repository can also include song lyrics, movie dialogue, poems, recipes, podcast transcripts, and any inspiring bits you find in your reading and listening. The commonplace book is not a new concept: Copying down your favorite lines from other people’s works into your own annotated notebook was a standard exercise in Renaissance Europe, and the … Continue reading Create a Digital Commonplace Book