Inexpensive Spiral Notebook

[Ambrose Bierce]

I am currently in school, so I blow through spiral notebooks like no body's business. Since I go through them so quickly order them from online, at high cost, and slow shipping times is just not really an option. Last semester I got a pretty decent notebook from Walmart, but it is not branded in any way what-so-ever, so getting another may be a little hard. So does anyone have any suggestions for notebooks I can pick up at Walmart/Staples/Office Depot?

[Bennett]

Sustainable Earth notebooks by Staples. They are made with sugar paper and they are fountain friendly.

Edited January 3, 2015 by Bennett

[WirsPlm]

Get a Mead Flex (they're refillable notebooks) and some nice printer paper if you have your own printer or can use notebooks without lines (some people can and some people can't so it all depends on what you can tolerate), this is probably the cheapest way to get a notebook with really nice paper.

 

Look for Red & Black notebooks which are often at office supply stores and are regarded very highly around here, or check for notebooks with Made in Brazil on them which often have good paper. If you can find them Miquelrius notebooks are also quite nice but the paper is a bit coated as so they're kind of slow to dry with some inks.

 

The best way is to wait for back-to-school sales and buy a whole bunch at that point, maybe keep that in mind for next year. I got through all of college and high school buying notebooks just once a year that way and it let me good good notebooks inexpensively.

Edited January 3, 2015 by WirsPlm

[ac12]

In the Staples 'back to school sale' in July/Aug I picked up a bunch of the Staples, wire bound, single subject, MADE IN BRAZIL, notebooks, for 17 cents each. It was so cheap, that is why I got 30 of em.

You MUST search the pile MANUALLY, as you need to find the BRAZIL notebooks. The paper in those is better than the paper in the notebooks from other countries, for fountain pen use. I think in the past 2 years, the Brazil notebooks came in after the other notebooks. Your store may be different, so you need to check regularly.

[bhthib3381]

I write in Mead spell-write steno books for work related writing. I write with a Vanishing Point EF. I don't have any issues with feathering or bleed-through. I don't have any of my Medium nib pens with me at the moment, so I can't tell you what effect a M or B will have on this paper.

But, they're inexpensive, easily found at most office supply stores and they work well for what I use. You might give them a shot.