Miquel-Rius Note Book 4 Spot Spiral Notebook, 11.25 x 8.75 - 1 ea

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Customer Reviews of Miquel-Rius Note Book 4 Spot Spiral Notebook, 11.25 x 8.75 - 1 ea

Customer Review: Perfection!
Summary: 5 Stars

The sheets are somewhat larger than the standard 8.5'x11'. This combined with the fine ruling allows one to compress an enormous number of words onto a single page. It's satisfying. Each page has a small rectangular bordered area near the top, above the first line, which is attractive and invites the placement of a title. I use these books for my daily journals and that's where I inscribe the date. Very neat. Furthermore, the book is divided into four equal, color-coded sections of thiry-five sheets each. This odd number, though not a prime, breaks up the linearity nicely without being oppressive. Multiples of fifty and twenty are ubiquitous, and, frankly, I've grown weary of them.*

Finally, the spiral binding does not catch the sheets upon manipulation of the object, as is so often the case. Nor does it tend to unravel at the ends. These two great bugbears of notebook construction have been the ultimate undoing of many former journals of mine, and I am profoundly relieved that I will never again be required to cope with this particular breed of torment. It is almost enough to renew one's faith in the species.

My only complaint is that, being spiralbound, you cannot pile an enormous number of them on top of one another and expect them to remain stable for long. I have in mind an experiment which I hope to execute soon involving the directional alteration of the binding, thereby allowing a more secure foundation for my tower of books. Perhaps I am merely an idle dreamer. At any rate, this instability or dynamicism is a small price to pay for the rest, or for the potential of laying flat on the table (the book) when open.

In sum, an attractively designed and eminently serviceable piece. It accomplishes what all such notebooks should, which is to encourage one to fill blank pages with scribbling. You may keep your pestilent blogs and your pedigreed Moleskines; I am, and shall forevermore remain, content with my simple Miquelrius 4 Spot.

* Admittedly, 140(4x35) is also a multiple of twenty, but since it is an odd multiple and therefore rarely seen I can applaud the designers of the 4 Spot for bringing attention to this comfortable but underutilized quantity.

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