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A diary for people who trust glue more than words.
means A blank book meant to be filled with pasted-in photos, clippings, and keepsakes rather than written entries.
from Built plainly from 'scrap' (a small cut or torn-off piece, from Old Norse 'skrap,' meaning scraps or scraping) plus 'book.' The word surfaces in the 1800s, when people began collecting newspaper clippings, pressed flowers, and cards into bound albums — a hobby popular enough that 'scrapbook' quickly became both the object and, later, a verb for the act of making one.
- origin
- Victorian hobbyists invented it before photography was affordable
- peak era
- 1980s craft boom made it a billion-dollar industry
- irony
- preserves memories using acid paper that destroys them over time
- digital heir
- pinterest boards are just scrapbooks that never run out of pages