They recorded observations in two notebook columns: one for attempts that worked (using metal objects), the other for those that failed.
Much of their known work from those years was organized in nine notebooks of contact prints with little identifying information.
She wrote her first (unpublished) novel, about a teenage girl in a New York high school, in three notebooks on her kitchen table when she was a teenager herself.
His recollections filled up more than 600 pages in three notebooks, which he bequeathed to his grandson Stefan Hertmans, one of the great living Flemish poets.
In a sort of homecoming for this country's most famous exile, the National Library of Ireland has acquired a sprawling collection of manuscripts by James Joyce, including, in a total of some 700 pages in six notebooks, 16 drafts from "Ulysses" and typescripts and proofs of "Finnegans Wake".
Gone is the venerable Powerbook brand, now supplanted by the new hotness of the MacBook Pro, and that change seems to be working: one in six notebooks sold in the month of June were of the MacBook or MacBook Pro brand.
While still in Madras, Ramanujan recorded the bulk of his results in four notebooks of loose leaf paper.
Originally written in three notebooks, his account has been acknowledged as the "central source for the history of Massachusetts in the 1630s and 1640s".
The Reports were initially written down in seven notebooks, four of which are lost; the first notebook contains not only law reports, but also a draft version of Coke's first Institutes of the Lawes of England.
