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Are you familiar with the situation when you spend hours searching for a notebook that matches your needs? We certainly are! Anyone can go crazy from the number of different notebooks—all those various colors, paper types, sizes… Lucky for our blog readers, BooksRun is going to add brand new notebooks in stock. It is important for us to know your preferences, so we made a list of the most popular notebook types—now you can choose your favorite! It’s totally up to you to decide what kind of notebook would be a perfect match for your needs.

Read more > “How to Choose the Perfect Notebook for Yourself”

Summer is the best time for college students to get equipped with the best productivity apps. These digital tools help you be productive at college, manage homework and lecture notes, save money, schedule classes, sell textbooks, and much more. Of course, some of these apps can be substituted in an analog way: taking handwritten notes and flashcards, keeping a Filofax agenda, or writing in a good-old Bullet Journal.

Read more > “10 Great Productivity Apps for College Students”

There are a bunch of note-taking and memorization methods out there: a two-column Cornell method, flashcards, or mind maps. These techniques are proven to be beneficial for enhancing one’s level of material memorization and recall. Indeed, it’s better to take notes and work through the textbook’s content instead of just reading!

Read more > “QUESTION: a Revolutionary Method for Learning from Textbooks”