guest books

Sign-in for visitors

Guest books are journals or registers where visitors record their names, often with brief messages or comments.

They appear at weddings, funerals, hotels, and tourist attractions, creating a record of attendance: Please sign the guest book on your way out.

Digital guest books serve the same function on websites, collecting visitor feedback or condolences.

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authorship/audience

guest bookspersonal journals

Private written records

diaries · personal memoirs · personal correspondence · autobiographies

permanence/formality of record

guest bookscensus records

Official population survey documents

visitor logs · attendance records · immigration records

Family

guest, book, guests, guested, guesting, books, booked, booking, bookish

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G