Chapter 28
A Miscellany Including Stationery, Clocks, Noises, Baby Carriages, Remuneration and Advance Preparations
BOOKS AND STATIONERY
10.a. An empty notebook (exercise book) is muktzeh. (See Chapter 20, paragraph 5.)
10.b. Where a notebook is only partly empty, then
1) if the written pages are of some importance to one and one sometimes reads them,
a) it is not prohibited to move the notebook on account of the blank pages it contains, yet,
b) it is best to refrain from leafing through the unused sheets, whereas,
2) if one attaches no importance whatever to what is written and does not read it, one should not handle the notebook at all.
11.a. It is permissible to use a card index, if its subject matter is not of the type mentioned in paragraph 6 above, in which case it would be muktzeh.
11.b. Taking a wrong card into one’s hand, in the course of looking for the card one needs, and putting it back in its place do not amount to a violation of the prohibition against selection.
11.c. Where one has taken a card out, one may search for its proper place in the index in order to replace it.
