Writing by hand is good for your brain

Re:Writing by hand is good for your brain by nahkoots on Thursday July 23, 2026 @03:16PM (#49026677)

That's incredibly cool actually, what was the book? Could you share anything he wrote which you found especially interesting?

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Re:Writing by hand is good for your brain by RRWagner on Thursday July 23, 2026 @06:44PM (#49029063)

The book is "Making Good in Business" by Roger W. Babson. Babson gifted the book to Edison in 1921. Here is a link to a scan of another copy of the book in the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/bwb_P9-DAU-349/mode/2up

Here is my github repo with scans of the marginalia from Edison: https://github.com/RRWagner/Making-Good-in-Business-Babson-E...

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Re:Writing by hand is good for your brain by throwaway554514 on Thursday July 23, 2026 @08:30PM (#49029905)

Got excited to check it out. fyi the same image (inscription) somehow got uploaded for all the images.

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Re:Writing by hand is good for your brain by RRWagner on Thursday July 23, 2026 @11:02PM (#49030784)

Thank you for the heads up! There was an error in the conversion process. All the images are there now.

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Re:Writing by hand is good for your brain by Chilko on Tuesday July 28, 2026 @06:20PM (#49090753)

These were interesting:

"History proves that religion is a curse and is the master scheme for Exploitation of man" - p47

"God helps nobody. 20 million perished in the late war — for no fault of theirs Why did God permit this" - p48

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