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Letterboxers find ways to vary both their personal letterboxing journals and logbooks placed in letterboxes. One participant in the study, who described journaling as particularly important, reported using notes and photos in his or her journal when recording finds. Another takes a photo of everyone in the letterboxing group on that hunt and pastes it in his or her letterboxing journal “so we have a better memory of that particular find.”

One described creating and using altered books as the logbook. An altered book is “any book, old or new that has been recycled by creative means into a work of art. They can be rebound, painted, cut, burned, folded, added to, collaged in, gold-leafed, rubber stamped, drilled or otherwise adorned “ (International Society of Altered Book Artists). Others make homemade logbooks.

In the Creative Writing – The Never Ending Story letterbox described by one participant, finders are expected to read the story the creator started in the logbook and then write another page to the on-going story. Their are over 40 pages to date.