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$1.45 Sustainable Earth Poly Composition Notebooks


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Just a heads up that Staples is currently clearancing out their Sustainable Earth composition notebooks with the poly covers, SKU 77537 >> here <<.

 

They're $1.45 each with free site-to-store shipping. There are 4 colors (red, blue, black, green), but I think the color you get might be random? I didn't see the option to select your cover color.

 

Cheers! :)

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Thanks for that. They're great notebooks, I'm down for 6. They usually send assorted colors. I ordered the composition books in August which were about $1 or less and they sent assorted cover colors. Free shipping to boot!

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Thanks for that. They're great notebooks, I'm down for 6. They usually send assorted colors. I ordered the composition books in August which were about $1 or less and they sent assorted cover colors. Free shipping to boot!

I got the regular composition books back in August as well. :D Good stuff.

 

I'm pretty stoked for these ones particularly because the poly covers are plain and I still get the goodness of the Sustainable Earth paper inside at an amazing price. :P

 

Please enjoy! :)

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How good is it compared to Rhodia paper?

It's not as good (very little is :rolleyes:) but it's not bad. Some feathering and showthrough, depending on the ink. The showthrough is mostly because the sugarcane paper is relatively thin, I think.

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It's not as good (very little is :rolleyes:) but it's not bad. Some feathering and showthrough, depending on the ink. The showthrough is mostly because the sugarcane paper is relatively thin, I think.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

Okay better question: How much better is this compared to the average Mead paper?

#Nope

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Hmmm. Good question. The bergasse paper is just... different. It's crisper and fuzzier paper at the same time from what regular notebook paper is like (yes, I know that sounds weird, but I can't explain it any better). I think that there's a bit less spread than for regular paper, but that's possibly also a function of the nib width(s) and ink(s). I like the SE paper; but it's hard to find in B&M stores anymore -- and my closest Staples had their space cut by a third to make room for another business in the same building (so I think their "in stock" supplies for just about *everything* has gotten more limited.

I will say that I just picked up one of those little fat Mead 5-Stars (the 200 sheet ones that are 5-1/2" x #-1/2" -- it actually *says* "Fat Lil' Notebook" on the back cover that I had lying around and it's not too FP unfriendly. Don't know where the paper for it was made, though -- it's copyright 2010 and I think that was before the law requiring information about country of origin. It *does* say "Certified Fiber Sourcing" with the logo for the Sustainable Forestry Initiiative on the back cover as well.

I used to use these all the time and still do somewhat for taking notes in classes -- simply because they were small but had a lot of pages. This particular one is less than a quarter filled, and the early entries are in BP -- the earliest stuff written with a fountain pen is notes from a meeting in May of 2012 (I'm thinking that one of the inks for those notes might be BSiAR and the other -- apparently I ran out of ink -- looks like Diamine Registrars Blue Black).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

"It's very nice, but frankly, when I signed that list for a P-51, what I had in mind was a fountain pen."

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Thanks--I just ordered a bunch of these.

Also, in order to get up to the total required for free shipping, I added some other stuff, including a Pilot Metropolitan.

When I looked in the cart, turns out they'd discounted the Pilot pen to $11.69 even though it was listed at $14.69.

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NB: These are *not* sugar cane paper, but plain old recycled. It's not bad paper per se, but it wicks ink out of the pen fairly eagerly, so I mostly use them with fine pens.

 

<-- paid full price like a rube, couple of months ago.

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yes the ad says 100% recycled white paper,

whereas the thin, easily wrinkled paper that loves fountain pen ink, so lots of Us love it, is labeled 80% sugarcane waste, and typically $4+ US, every so often on sale at $3ish

still $1.45 for a basic composition book is reasonable.. sharing this now so you can alter your order if sugarcane base paper is your true preference.

mooshi it's nice to see you post.. your happy shark avatar is one of my all time favorites

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Sustainable ?

 

A good notebook is a good notebook. At a bargain price, it is all the better.

 

Sustainable ? It's a TREE ! They grow back. We have known it for a long time.

I am delighted that someone finally gave it a name. "Sustainable ".

Auf freiem Grund mit freiem Volke stehn.
Zum Augenblicke dürft ich sagen:
Verweile doch, du bist so schön !

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Sustainable ?

 

A good notebook is a good notebook. At a bargain price, it is all the better.

 

Sustainable ? It's a TREE ! They grow back. We have known it for a long time.

I am delighted that someone finally gave it a name. "Sustainable ".

The problem, though, is that trees tend grow back slowly (as opposed to stuff like sugarcane, which is harvestable after a single planting season).

Here in Western PA, we have one of the few remaining "old growth" forests in the entire US -- everything else has been clearcut at least a couple of times over.

Wonder why so much lumber at places like Home Depot is garbage? Because it's been harvested from that third or fourth growth timber. To get furniture-grade stuff you're probably going to pay top dollar and even the oak isn't going to be as good quality as stuff from, say, 100 years ago.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

"It's very nice, but frankly, when I signed that list for a P-51, what I had in mind was a fountain pen."

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mooshi it's nice to see you post.. your happy shark avatar is one of my all time favorites

:D It's been a while.

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