By Steven Peterman and Sara Elands Peterman

224 pages, softcover, $30. Published by Princeton Architectural Press, papress.com

Since its inception in 2006, the Sketchbook Project has seen more than 31,000 sketchbooks sent its way from artists around the world—a testa­ment to the enduring value of ink on paper in our digital age. On display at the Brooklyn Art Library, in a bookmobile and online at sketchbookproject.com, the drawings run the gamut from street portraits to doodles to pop-ups and collages, yet everyone starts from the same blank book with the knowledge that their submission, however imperfect, adds a unique voice to the growing library. This summer the bookmobile makes stops in eight cities—Brooklyn, Chicago, Atlanta, Austin, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle and Toronto—allowing the public to flip through the originals. This book offers another view of the collection. It’s by no means exhaustive, but it does a great job of inspiring artists to treat their sketchbooks as a perfectly valid canvas for telling stories of their own. —Amy Ng