Something for you furious note-takers out there to take a note about:

Building a blank bible

Has anyone else been there--you're listening to a sermon and the pastor casually mentions something that makes the entirety of the passage click? You need to write this down. This nugget of prophetic excellence has to be remembered each and every time you open to page 764.

But you don't have space in the margin to do it justice. There's never enough space in the margin.

So, you're forced to squeeze this epic spiritual insight perpendicular to the text. Maybe with messy arrows and cramped lines, and five years later that inspired knowledge is a blob of illegible ink.

Apparently, I'm not alone in thinking that being able to fuse my journal and bible would be extremely advantageous.

The concept is relatively simple. Remove the spine from your bible and add in some blank pages (there's a great liberal or fundamentalist joke in there that I refuse to make). After rebinding you have a bible with plenty of space for notetaking.

Anyone else hack one of these together? Or do you have any other methods of keeping notes on the bible?

Here's another one: The successful attempt