I personally put the name, author, date I started, the date I finished, the genre, the number of pages, my rating, I also copy the Goodread synopsis and I put some notes and thought about the book ! 💜 I really enjoy your videos!! Have a beautiful day :)

As a former paper crafting magazine editor, I can say you picked up one of the best inks! Good job.

I am setting a book journal for 2024 for the first time. I am super excited and have chosen a B6 Stalogy for my journal. I plan to have favorite authors pages, favorite series pages and book reviews. I am so excited to set it up.

Sabrina Poole does a reading journal... love hers.... and Heba with My Little Journal does a book journal as well. Both have amazing set up videos and ideas on what to include. I found them totally inspirational. I'm actually going to start a book journal for 2024 as well and plan to set mine up the week after Christmas. I do audible books, Kindle books and physical books. I plan to use them all as "books" read. The Stazon Ink is one that is very juicy and has a hide bleed tendency (I'm a paper crafter)... and SURPRISE! You're not the last person on earth to have those alpha stamps. LOL I don't have them. I'm a photopolymer stamp girl. I think this will be a fun journey to follow you on! I'm at work eating lunch right now but I have a list of supplies to keep together -- inks and pens. Lord willing if I remember when I get home I'll jump back on and give you the ones that I've seen several reviews on! :)

Oh and for the Stamps, maybe stamp the words on kraft paper or another decorative paper and glue it on.

You made me want to make a book journal now haha. 😊

I just bought that rainbow journal from Archer & Olive and pictures/videos don’t do it justice! It’s gorgeous! 🌈

Ok the B6+ Luchtturm's are SOOO underrated. I adore them.

Thanks for sharing - this is something I didn’t know I needed. Creating a book journal now! 😂🥰

I’m currently using a Stalogy for my 2023 book journal. On the index i put name, author, pages. When I start a new book, i turn à New page, put start date then whatever notes I want from the book itself and then the end date. No rating or pics but you’ve definitely inspired me !

Do what works for you. The point of a journal is for your creative journey. Love your videos!!

You have inspired me with the mini printer for my reading journal. Such a great idea ! Thank you for sharing 😊

So glad you did it. Don’t let comparison demotivate you!!!!

Thank you for this! Fourth Wing and Iron Flame have inspired me to start a book/reading journal as well and I absolutely love how simple yours is. You have given me some great ideas to carry into setting up my own.

Love your videos! I never thought about doing a book journal but after watching your video I want to start one. ❤

Yay! Been loving your reading journey as a bookstagrammer and fellow Fourth Wing enthusiast hehe. I use the Always Fully Booked planner from Little Inklings for my reading journal/challenge tracker and it's so much fun

20:40 loved your message at the end so much! I hope your 2024 is filled with many 5 star reads!

Loved this! Not sure if anyone shared but the Versa Magic chalk ink is amazing and doesn’t bleed. Hope that helps!

Loved this! This is my first year of keeping a reading journal and I absolutely loved it! It's so satisfying seeing to see a journal expand because of the art and writing you're adding to it. I added a daily reading tracker at the beginning of my journal, almost like a bar graph, i have the months across the top and the days of the week on the side and I color the boxes on the days I read and add diagonal lines on the days i did not read. Before starting this journal I was not a consistent reader but i always wanted to be. And let me tell you, seeing all of the colored boxes vs. the diagonal lined boxes is an amazing feeling! 😊 Happy reading and book journaling! 🎉

Yessss I am here for this journey for you. Excited to see it unfold ❤

This is so cute! I now want to have a book journal!

This is great! I have been wanting to do a book journal as well. Many blessings for a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Loved this! I now think I am going to make a book journal. Loved Fourth Wing! I’m just slowly savoring Iron Flame. And I like the idea of adding my book club books in there. Thanks so much Julie! Your videos are so inspiring and fun to watch.

Great video! I’m starting a book/media journal. I don’t read enough to do just books, so I’m combining in the book journal fashion. I need to get an ivy 2 first though. And those 5 star stickers. And yay for kindles.

You have me wanting to set up a reading log journal as well! Love that book that you are using, I used to read a book in a day and cant remember the last time I read! Im going to give it a try and maybe it will motivate me. Thanks for the video! And PS, it doesnt have to be perfect, I actually like the look of offset letters❤

I’ve used Tombow markers instead of ink pads and they work beautifully with no ghosting or bleeding

Finally a video that considers the easiest possibilities to journal. Thank you so much!

I love how you set it up!

Love this video! For my book journal, I do title, author, genre, number of pages, rating, and my thoughts on the book

Fourth Wing was so goooood!! I'm reading Iron Flame now 😊

You have a great ink! It is multi-surface ink and you got a one, it is permanent though. You could get any ink and it would work, to clean use a wet wipe, diaper wipe, and you are good. You don't need to let it dry, it is one of the number one inks on the market, it is water proof, marker proof, and it is archival.

You could also print 2 book covers side by side 😊 I also was SO overwhelmed when I was looking at book journals. I hate writing reviews. I always feel silly when I do! So I just put all the books I read in my journal. I add my star rating and the date I finished it. I do this monthly so I can see how many books, pages, and what genres I read each month. 😊

Love this! Book journals are so much fun to be creative in. Stamping tip, stamp the individual letters, it keeps the stamps from “going to a party the night before” 😂. Also, a great ink for thinner paper is VersaMagic Chalk Ink. I use it in my Hobonichi with ZERO bleed through, there is ghosting but that’s to be expected with TR paper.

The deep prayer for the stamping 😂😂 I'm sad that the Leuchtturm1917 had bleed for the stamps, but its good to know to test new stamps etc in notebooks (for me😂). It looks really cute tho 🎉🎉🎉

I picked up some good tips. Thank-you!

Memento black ink is very forgiving and cleans up with a damp shammy (like a car washing shammy). Stazon is fantastic but you almost need a Stazon ink cleaner to get the ink off of your stamps. Love your videos :)

I use Goodreads to do this but this is making me what to make a physical book journal ❤

Last year I used a reading journal from Little Inklings Design, but this video is making me want to set up one of my own for next year 😍 Last year I tracked and will continue to track: title, author, genre, # of pages, start date/end date, my rating, my thoughts, and where it came from (owned, library, borrowed, purchased). As much as I love going nuts in a bookstore, I try my best to borrow from the library first, and I like to see how much I borrowed vs. bought at the end of the year.

Just got the stamp set yesterday and yes, not easy but as you said - its pretty when the letters are not in line 😊

You picked up a great ink, it is permanent and waterproof however due to it being alcohol based it won't clean easily off your stamps and can have a tendency to bleed through papers. Maybe look at Memento ink and the colour Tuxedo black is another nice black ink. It is water based so clean up will be easier you can use a damp cloth next to you while you are stamping or you can use a baby wipe. It will have less tendency to bleed through your paper, it can dry quicker but it isn't waterproof. I hope this helps. I enjoyed your video and look forward to hearing about the books you read. Now it's time for me to go and contemplate doing a book journal.

I'm a bookworm. Have been since I could put two letters together at the tender age of 3. My mom said I learned to read on my own... And it took several years for me to learn to read a little bit at a time. I can read a book in one sitting, I can read 4 in a row and just stop for eating /restroom breaks... Okay, maybe I still read through all of that. I have read 15 books within a week. 400 pgs average per book. So, I'm a recovering bookholic and having a book journal is just an invitation for forgetting my responsibilities. 😂 I prefer audio books/kindle books because I like to travel and move often. So, my idea is to replace all my physical books with digital so I can be the nomad I was born to be. I still have to fight FOMO so bad every time I watch a book journal/planner and I love your journal! I'm so excited to see you use it and enjoy getting lost in a book. Happy journey! ❤❤

Loved watching your set-up, and I SO agree with keeping it low-key and manageable! I started my second and current Book BuJo or Reading Journal towards the end of 2020 and I’m still in it. The way I’m currently using it, my estimate is that I will stay in it towards the end of 2025. I actually wish I’d fill it up a little faster because I’ve already got a really cute notebook by Archer & Olive I want to use next, but I’m not going to force anything either. What I put in my Reading Journal is: a print-out of the book, title, author, star rating (I use a stencil), read from (date) until (date), whether I recommend/do not recommend the book, genre(s), 3 key words/phrases/tropes, summary (of the content), and my own comments/opinions/thoughts on the book.

I have a suggestion for the small notebook use that for a reading log from here until the end of life….just put the book title and date started….and then continue next year.

🎉 Congrats on the successful stamping!!!! Beware the rabbit hole.... 😂

The higher gsm (paper thickness) the less risk of bleeding through. But love this.

I have the canon SELPHY Polaroid one that’s on sticky but I don’t use that for my reading journal I gather covers I have or plan to buy and print from a canva template I made

I'm not sure if anyone else has said this--because whoa, there's over 100 comments!--but StazOn ink is usually what you need to stamp on something very shiny that tends to wash off stamp ink, like photographs. (Think of StazOn ink as the Sharpie of stamp ink.) I'd recommend using either VersaFine, which many people love, or Studio Calico's Color Theory "Inky Black" ink--which is my favorite, because it is even less saturated on pages. (It's very dark, but it doesn't ghost as much as even VersaFine.) For stamps, I'd also recommend you get a Lawn Fawn stamp shammy, which you can get wet, and then it will stay wet for a few hours and kind of squeegee the ink off. If you really get into stamping, I'd recommend looking into clear stamps with stamp blocks; they're a lot easier to put exactly where you want them on the page. (And! You can get stamps with very different fonts.)

Ugh i hate when my letters go to parties the night before ... 😂😂😂

Well.....now I want a reading journal as well....😁

Someone may have said it already one way you can do the stamps is to just do them one at a time, and I learned very late on if you want to make sure that they don’t have the little corner of where you pressed the stamp into the ink just lightly press it or even just tap it in the ink a couple times. I honestly struggle with remembering books that I read and what I found enjoyable and what I didn’t like as well. So I usually have the title, genre, author, and why I liked it / didn’t like it and what about the authors writing style I liked so that I know for future books.

LOL! Such funny reactions about stamping...but I get it the struggle is real....ink is permanent! You could always consider stamping on a separate piece of paper and taping it in. Using each stamp one at a time might be easier. But the best advise for stamping words or even using letter stickers....have them not perfectly lines up on purpose....gives you more wiggle room. You did spectacular!

It might be easier to stamp one at a time. Love your set up! Your ink is a good ink but I noticed with it you need thicker paper. I make handmade cards. I like versefine black i believe is the name. I have so many black inks that i cant keep all names straight.

Stazon is the best ink, but if you don't like bleed through I recoment stamping onto seperately paper and glueing it in

I love this video. How did you copy the book covers on your phone?

“That t is gonna look like it went to a party last night” 🎉😂☠️

If you want to get rid of the extra ink from the sides of the stamp you can get the mono sand eraser & it will clean up any edges you want. Have fun! 📖 📚

Great tips

I love the little book covers. I have an Ivy but don’t know where to find the original images of the book cover. I would appreciate your help locating those. ❤

I bought Fourth Wing from all of the hype, but I haven't read it quite yet. I have been using Monica's The Bookworm Life Planner to track my books, and am adding The Book Sisters' Reading Planner (recommended by The Shelfie Chronicles) for 2024, which has a lot of the book stats that I like to track already printed out for me. I like to track what format I read the books in: Audiobook, Kindle, or Physical, and what format I own them in (I really wish Amazon/publishers made a bundle where you could get a physical/digital/audio copy of a book - just give me all the formats, okay?). I like to put a little sticker on a monthly calendar to see when I finish books. Am I more likely to finish them on a weekday or a weekend? Why does this nerdy self-trivia make me so happy? I like to track genres I read per year and how many pages I've read. What I'm bad at is figuring out what to say about a book in a review or a journal, so if you are up for sharing, I'd love to hear some of your reflections and what you want to write down to remind yourself about the experience of reading the book.

Could you PLEASE share a link to the star stickers? I have looked EVERYWHERE for ones like them and they’re harder to find than I thought they’d be.

I like to write the date I started and the date I finished and how many days i actually read the book, like I may write from 10th-20th but I read only on 10th 12nd 15th and 20th so I write 4 days

I have that printer. I love it

Hi Julie i am new to book journaling. Could you please let me know where you get the little book covers from? Many thanks!

You can draw a dark line on a piece of paper and place it under the page and stamp one letter at a time.

I put title, author, rating & genre. I don't include start/end date because it would depress me.

That "t" is going to look like it went to a party last night"...😂

is your b6 book soft cover or hard cover?

Clean stamps with wipes.

Is this Leuchtturm hardcover or paperback? Can’t find a B6+ black hardcover.

Memento ink. Stazon will stain everything

Looks like the book Washi is from Cocoa Daisy.

Sara Marie stickers?

Could you only print 2 per sheet instead of one or four? Love it but the price is crazy.

Baby wipes