Name: Teach Them Diligently (Branson)
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Tagged: Book of Centuries

This topic has 4 replies, 3 voices, and was last updated 13 years ago by tlm123.

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March 16, 2012 at 2:06 am
teachme2learn
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My children and I have been using the free BOC offered by SCM but I find that we aren’t making entries regularly, mostly I think because we make it a bigger deal than it needs to be. We tend to be perfectionists.
Now, I’ve been looking at My Book of Centuries and I really like the layout. My question, for those who have used it, do you have the printed book or the e-book and what do you like about the version you have? And when you make the entries do you use pencil or pen?
Thanks
March 16, 2012 at 3:44 am
tlm123
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We are definitely a printed book kind of people! My son loves to draw everything so the printed version works well for us. We used to keep 2 separate books (one for him and one for me) but he wasn’t putting much into his. So I combined his book with mine and I leave it out on the table so that it is always in plain sight to add something as we study it. Sometimes he might draw something small, sometimes it may be a whole page. But he always has to make it his “own”.
I find that the more we put into it the more fun my son has going back through and seeing what he has added. We’ve only been working on it about a year and a half but it is starting to fill out and look nice. Can’t wait to see it in another 5-7 years!
March 16, 2012 at 6:24 am
Sue
Participant
There are some reviews on the SCM forum and and a bit more information (including comments from the My Book of Centuries creator herself) that you may find by clicking here and also here.
HTH,
Sue
March 16, 2012 at 10:29 pm
teachme2learn
Participant
Thank you ladies.
I’m really having a hard time deciding whether to purchase the already bound book or printing the pages myself from the e-book. I have five children that I would need to buy the books for right now. It would be one thing if it was one at a time but all at once it’ll be costly.
I was wondering if those who have used the bound book found that they needed more space to make entries?
March 16, 2012 at 11:27 pm
tlm123
Member
I think I may have misunderstood the difference between the 2 kinds of books and my answer may not have helped you! Sorry. I have the unbound, printed out kind of book that I keep in a 3 ring binder for the very reason you are asking about in your second question. My son loves to draw and some of his entries take up a lot of space so I am using a notebook just in case I need to add another page for a century or something, especially once we hit the 19th and 20th centuries. I am expecting more entries then. Hope that clarified and helped alittle more.