I myself like to govern closely. I used to be able to get this beautiful, tight reinforced filler paper from the stationery shop around the corner from my hometown. But the stationery store is gone (it`s a Starbucks now) and I`m stuck shopping at Staples, and. Staples simply doesn`t have a very good selection of esoteric stationery. Narrow pads offer a distance of 1/4 inch between lines and legal or wide control pads offer a distance of 11/32 inches. Double lines mark the left margin. I knew I couldn`t be the only possessed person desperately looking for something suitable for tiny, cramped writing. I`m a graduate student, and lately, the only way to keep information in my head is to constantly write things down and rewrite them. I came across a narrow filler paper pack a year ago and have been searching feverishly ever since. I even ripped out a corner of a sheet of paper to compare the choices available at Staples, Office Depot, Target and even a grocery store.
Until I could find a source online, I recently found a temporary replacement at Target; “Innovative Designs” – his spiral-bound notebook for the university with a cover with garish zebra patterns. Fortunately, the leaves are perforated and tear easily, and the narrow edges help make up for lost space. Since then, the Regulations have evolved considerably. Here in North America, manufacturers recognize three main varieties: They must cross loose sheets off the list. On the shelves, you will see wide rulers and college rulebook paper. Luckily for you, your son or daughter`s teacher wrote exactly the kind of paper needed for their class. But what if you don`t look at the list and take a packet of notebooks you found? Would there be a big difference? Aren`t all filler papers the same? Narrow-line paper has lines that, you guessed it, are closer to each other than other forms of lined paper. Lines on narrow-lined paper are spaced 6.4 mm (1/4 inch) apart. It is designed for people with very small handwriting and allows to have more words on a single page.
A much rarer type of paper is called narrow paper. As the name suggests, narrow paper has closer lines, spaced 1/4 inch apart and is used for people who have smaller handwriting and allow more writing per page. I came across this when I was searching online for a narrow paper source. It always seems like such a waste to use only half of the paper when writing (the closest half to the line). In the past, I only put two lines of text on the page for each pre-printed line. And that`s with the “college-led” paper. I don`t even try to use large format paper, why should I pay to use only a third of the page. I came across your message while searching the Internet for a book of thin composition – I love cardboard sleeves and the simplicity of these stylish notebooks. Next time someone says; “Order me legal notebooks, right?” You`ll know you have to follow, “Sure, I`d be happy. Tell me first… It`s strange, but I have a problem with stationery. I have a heavy pathos for the act of slow disappearance and disappearance that the tightly governed newspaper seems to be doing in this country. The broad rule is for, I don`t know, people who use pencils as their primary means of expression, and the college rule is kind of an understatement.
Frankly, the damn lines are too far apart on 99% of the notepad and filler paper supplied in America. If I use paper where the lines are too far apart, I write like a caffeinated and too effeminate fifth-grader: tall, sloppy, stupid. That`s all I can do to not pierce my “i” with hearts. I feel your pain completely! I was in the middle of an angry online search for more legally regulated notebooks when your blog post appeared on Google. Hahah, line “dot my i`s with hearts”. Niiice. I guess you Brits are just more demanding, well done. I only found narrow-tilt filler paper in university bookstores and online in a few places. It`s so expensive that my student loan “income” may force me to use this less desirable trick.
Here`s a place I found it online. www.factory-express.com/Office_Supplies/Ampad_3Ring_Notebook_Filler_Paper-46413.htm?source=froogle Although the use of shorthand in business, legal and journalistic documents has declined in recent years due to technological advancements, it is still used as a personal tool. No matter what brand of flip paper you buy, both wide and collegiate papers all have the same type of spacing. There is also virtually no difference in the quality of standard paper from one brand to another. However, it is not the same when it comes to computer printer paper as it has different types of printing applications and is often classified by weight, type, and color. StefanV – You did well, the National is governed by 1/4″. I recently ordered five of my favorite spiral books, as well as a few pens I love that I couldn`t find anywhere else. I filled out the last page today.
A lunch at the De(s)pot office managed to indicate a tolerable, if not ideal, option: Tops makes a block from right to top in a strict rule. Thank God. But I`d really like to have a spiral binding and I`d really, really like to have a composition book in strict order. There is a book www.Greenroomeco.com comp (side-scrolling, only two versions), a Continental brand, which is one of only two strict rules at Staples. The other is their private label, not bad, but $5.00 each. Moleskine comp books are available at Target, pack of two, $18.00. Hi all. I love Narow Ruled Paper and the only place I can get it is at my college bookstore. It`s just the loose leaf variety, but. I love him.
has not been to school for some time. but I go back anyway when I can, just to buy MORE packages. =) Tight rule forever!! Ladies and gentlemen, I have seen the light. I found this site while I was on Stumble-upon and thought I`d give you hope to readers! I had a few tight typesetting notebooks in the late `80s, and I, too, was looking for the narrow ruler paper above everyone else. Today I was in Max`s office near my home in Minneapolis, MN, wandering around, like here, what did I see? Composition notebooks with narrow colors in a variety of non-pastel colors. I wish I could have the means to catch them all because I feel like they won`t be there when I come back for them. I would post a link from the Windows Store, but they don`t appear on the Office Max website. So, carry rolls if you have a store nearby, and fill up before they disappear! I`ll try to come back later today or until the end of the week, and I`ll keep you all posted if I manage to get my hands on some of these beauties! They must not only be narrow, but wired. Canson, the art paper people, used to make a fantastic, 5 x 8, just enough to carry it in a bag or to a meeting.
But unfortunately, that`s no more. I am now looking for a new, hitherto futile ideal. It is, as a friend likes to say, a first-world problem. Gregg measures three lines per inch (11/32 inches), with one line in the middle to divide the page into two columns – you write first on the left side, then move to the right side. In courtrooms, stenographers used to have more columns on the page to indicate when a new person started speaking. Yet another person who found this post while searching for cramped magazines! I saw a Moleskine-style notebook with a tight line – Quo Vadis Habana Journal in the small format.