Suggested reading
On reading in revolutionary England
Achinstein, Sharon. Milton and the Revolutionary Reader. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994.
Cressy, David. England on Edge: Crisis and Revolution, 1640-1642. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.
Sharpe, Kevin. Reading Revolutions: The Politics of Reading in Early Modern England. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000.
On commonplace books
Havens, Earle. Commonplace Books: A History of Manuscripts and Printed Books from Antiquity to the Twentieth Century. New Haven, CT: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, 2001.
Moss, Ann. Printed Commonplace-Books and the Structuring of Renaissance Thought. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
Examples of commonplace books
Klene, Jean. The Southwell-Sibthorpe Commonplace Book: Folger MS V.b. 198. Tempe, AZ: Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 1997.
Mohl, Ruth. John Milton and His Commonplace Book. New York: Ungar, 1969.
Olsen, Thomas, ed. The Commonplace Book of Sir John Strangways (1645-1666). Tempe, AZ: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2004.
Pruitt, Paul and David Durham. Commonplace Books of Law: A Selection of Law-related Notebooks from the Seveteenth to the mid-twentieth Century. Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama School of Law, 2005.
Wilson, Douglas. Jefferson's Literary Commonplace Book. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University press, 1989.
On reading and writing
Chartier, Roger. Forms and Meanings: Texts, Performances, and Audiences from Codex to Computer. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995.
Love, Harold. The Culture and Commerce of Texts: Scribal Publication in Seventeenth-Century England. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1998.
McKenzie, D.F. Bibliography and the Sociology of Texts. London: British Library, 1986.
McKenzie, D.F. Making Meaning: "Printers of the mind" and Other Essays. Peter McDonald and Michael Suarez, eds. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2002.
Ong, Walter. Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word. London: Routledge, 2002.
Slights, William. Managing Readers: Printed Marginalia in English Renaissance Books. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2001.
Zwicker, Steven. The Folger Institute: Habits of Reading in Early Modern England. 1997. The Folger Shakespeare Library. http://www.folger.edu/html/folger_institute/habits.cfm