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From Shana on August 8, 2008:

I have received notebook 13 here in New Orleans, and will passing it along to Texas early this coming week. Book 13 is a good one, so don’t lose it!!

Notebook 29:

I got it and thank you verymuch.
it is a great idea..
thanks for staying at lucahouse in amsterdam
lieke

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Notebook 14:

I love the idea of doing this notebook. Its such a great way to learn about others. It opens up our eyes to what is going on in this world. Not just in our town or anything else like that but around the world. It shows me all about the community. How there are people who are in more need and help than i am.

Thank you for creating this notebook. It truely is an eye opener and a lovely idea

-Anabelle

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Notebook 24:

Hi, it’s me Maggie’s mom. I had fun with the notebook and kind of collaged 4 pages. Ah, not sure I should have done that many but…I did have a birthday, and I do have some fabric to tape down and play with. I even put in one of my labels and that has my name on it. after reading your blog info, I’m not sure that’s such a good idea. I am wondering how out there these might get. I could get it moving only in my extended family and then my name in it is no big thing.

(In response to this, we would like people with notebooks to add whatever information they would like to the notebooks. Take credit for what you create. Let people know that you made something special.)

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Notebook 28:

Hello,
I’ve just been in Amsterdam and I stumbled across book number 28 of 99 in a bicycle basket on Kerkstraat. My friends and I picked up the book, wrote a note in it and have just dropped it off in Berlin- in the Wombat hostel, locker number 2 in room 302.
We thought it was such a nice idea we had to get involved!
I hope book number 28 has a nice trip!!!
Stef xx

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Notebook 13:

Ok, started this one and asked a neighbor artist if he’d like to continue it.

(I guess we can’t post our entries directly to the blog ? So-)
Here’s so far, pages 1 –3 with a half page in the middle collaged in between.

Fun fun, sending it on, will let you know when.
Michael

We also have a special treat for you guys. Michael was kind enough to scan the pages from Notebook 13 that he worked on. We loved getting to see them! We also want to encourage everyone else to do the same and scan or photograph any parts of any journal that they come across. They can send us images of pages that they worked on or even just other pages that they find interesting. We would love to see what is getting added to them. Here is one of the pages that Michael created. I am having technical difficulties with uploading the rest of the images in one blog post, so I will post the rest of the pages in the next few days.

Notebook 13, Page 1

From Michael in San Francisco:

Hi Spence!
I received #13 yesterday…thanks a lot.
I’ll get to it soon as I can and pass it on.

:-)

Today was a busy day for us at 99 Notebooks! We started off by biking over to the Ocean Beach Post Office where we mailed 4 notebooks off. Lucky notebook #13 went to Michael in San Francisco, who saw a post we made on the Craigslist forums and was interested in the project. Notebook #14 went off to Oklahoma to JJ, who read about us on our friend Heather’s blog. We mailed #15 and #16 to Tricia in Sherman Oaks, CA who also read about us on Heather’s blog. Way to go Heather! You rock! Tricia also happens to be a proud member of what may have been the greatest kickball team in the history of the world, The Kitshickers. Read all about them, they were amazing.

After the Post Office we rode our bikes over to the Ocean Beach Farmers Market, where we gave away Notebook #19 (pictured above). We wanted to have this notebook passed around the Farmers Market today, so we slapped a little post-it note on it that told people to keep passing it around. We also attached a pen to the notebook so it could be easily written in. We started this notebook off by giving it “Captain Mountain Bob”, an amazing OB resident who told us some wild stories about some adventures that he has been on. This guy was great, and a perfect person to start this notebook. This will be an interesting one to follow…hopefully a lot of people got to write in it today.

We then gave Notebook #18 to a guy that was selling really cool handmade glass jars. Maggie bought one of the jars, so I pulled out a notebook and handed it to him and started describing how it worked. With little hesitation, he took the notebook, flipped it open, and immediately started writing in it. It was awesome! He knew what he wanted to say and he didn’t waste any time. Right before we left the Farmers Market, we left Notebook #17 in a payphone on Newport Avenue. If you ended up finding Notebook 17, send us an email and tell us how you came across it.

After we got back home, we decided to start some more notebooks, so I gave some to my roommates and girlfriend. Dave got #20. Maggie got #21. Matt got #22. And Bob got #23.

Whew! That was a lot of notebooks. 11 in one day! Just a heads up: I used Media Mail to send the notebooks at the post office, which I have been told takes a lot longer than Priority Mail, so it might take a few extra days for some of you to get your notebooks in the mail. If you are reading this website because someone handed you a notebook in the last few days, send me an email and tell me where you got it and what you are going to do with it. Keep me updated and I will keep the world updated. Thanks!