\[ **keywords:** #Commonplace_books #Locke_John--1631-1704 ] --- > [!cite] Citation > Dolbear, Sam. ‘John Locke’s Method for Common-Place Books (1685)’. *The Public Domain Review*, 8 May 2019, https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/john-lockes-method-for-common-place-books-1685/. --- ‘Popular in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, a “commonplace book” was a notebook used to gather quotes and excerpts from one’s literary wanderings—a kind of personalized encyclopedia of quotations.’ [[Dolbear, ‘John Locke’s Method for Common-Place Books (1685)’, 2019|(Dolbear 2019, n.p.)]] ^4abc19 ‘In general, the commonplace book would result in a wonderfully tangled mixture of reading and writing, where disparate ideas could be fruitfully thrown together onto the same pages, fixed together only by a formal method (and of course similar word roots).’ [[Dolbear, ‘John Locke’s Method for Common-Place Books (1685)’, 2019|(Dolbear 2019, n.p.)]] ^4f103c