Learn English – A notebook in which people write or sign as a memento

word-request

I'm looking for a word to describe

a notebook that a person keeps in which other people usually those respected or dear to him like co-workers, classmates, friends, etc sign and/or write a short writing to wish well for the notebook's owner.

This notebook is usually kept because you want to remember different people who have been with in your life.

In my native language, it's called memory notebook. Sometimes you put small photos of them on top of the page they've written on, too.

I've looked up journal/diary and also scrapbook, but I think they are not the words I'm looking for since a journal is written by the person himself and a scrapbook is filled with photographs, printed media, and artwork (no signature or other people's handwriting I suppose).

  1. What do they call this notebook in English?

  2. What do they call the short writings written by others in such a notebook?

In eaither case, if there are informal words, too, please mention them.

Thanks

Best Answer

I put the German (my native language) word for this ("Poesiealbum") into Google Translate and it came back with "autograph book" (which from the linked Wikipedia article seems to match the your question).

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