Perforated Notebooks

[Cause]

I like Notebooks. Pocket size or A5 size there about suits me fine. The thing is I often feel I ruin a notebook the moment I write in it. That is why I love the idea of perforated pages. Once the note has no meaning anymore I can remove it and reset my notebook. The thing is I am having trouble finding any.

At current I have found TSWBI pocket notebooks have all the pages perforated. Any other candidates? I would ideally like a hardback.

[TMLee]

Perforated as in the pages can be torn away neatly?

[pepsiplease69]

Spiralbound Miquelruis has all perforated pages, but it's not hardbound and it's not stitch bound, so it might not be an option.

 

Rhodia Reversebook (love the form-factor) also has spiral bound perforated pages.

[mmg122]

Maruman Notebooks come in A5 and pocket size and have all micro perforated pages. They are, however, soft cover. I'm not aware of any hard cover notebooks with perforated pages.

 

ETA: Apparently a company called "ecosystems" makes a hard cover journal with perforated pages. They are sold on Amazon and at Barnes and Noble.

[LizEF]

There is a hard cover, wire-bound, Black n' Red A5 notebook with perforated pages. That's the closest I can think of to what you describe.

[TMLee]

If you mean 'tear-able' pages , I think the choices are quite few.

 

One alternative is to use this ...

 

http://walternash.ie/OLFA-PRC2-Perforator

 

You only use it only where you want it.

 

This way you can continue to use your favorite notebooks.

Edited October 15, 2016 by TMLee

[bogiesan]

Barnes and Nobel had a house brand called Ecosystem. Every page is microperfed. The range of products has diminished and the brand seems to be on the decline. That means a couple dozen people ar out of jobs but it also means you can find the notebooks at terrific prices.

[Cause]

Thanks eveyone for the suggestions I will take a look. Normally hate ring binders though. Hardcover is not a must just a preference.

Has anyone have experience with Rhodia notebooks? I thought they were perforated

Also it does not need to be perforated excatly, any method that lets me remove pages easily will work.

 

If you mean 'tear-able' pages , I think the choices are quite few.

One alternative is to use this ...

http://walternash.ie/OLFA-PRC2-Perforator

You only use it only where you want it.

This way you can continue to use your favorite notebooks.

 

Do you have experience with that tool? If it works in journals you are my hero.

[Notgatherox]

Thanks eveyone for the suggestions I will take a look. Normally hate ring binders though. Hardcover is not a must just a preference.

 

Has anyone have experience with Rhodia notebooks? I thought they were perforated

 

Also it does not need to be perforated excatly, any method that lets me remove pages easily will work.

 

 

Do you have experience with that tool? If it works in journals you are my hero.

 

 

Rhodia notepads (the top stapled bound ones) are perforated. Haven't heard about the notebooks.

 

I have one of those at home. While they work, I don't really use it because I find the perforations it makes is spaced too wide apart for my liking - I'm too used to the Rhodia perforations.

 

 

~Epic

Edited October 15, 2016 by Lord Epic

[LizEF]

I have two hardbound Rhodia notebooks here in front of me - one dotted, one lined. No perforated pages in either (unless they're hidden in the middle). IMO, the vast majority of hardbound journals / notebooks are intended to keep the pages in them - everything about that binding style is designed to keep all the pages in the book, so there won't be many choices.

 

I have a different model of the rotary perforator thing, and it works fairly well, but in my opinion, if you want to cleanly remove pages from a bound journal, just use a sharp knife. But keep in mind, that most hardbound notebooks are going to have groups of folded sheets stitched into them* and that means that when you remove one page, you'll be loosening the other half of the sheet, which will come out sooner or later. You can reduce the risk by leaving more of a "tab" on the side you're removing rather than cutting close to the stitching / fold.

 

*Another form of binding is what they use on paperbacks, where the pages are stacked into a machine with the binding edge down. The pages run over a cutting tool which shaves the binding side even (making each page its own sheet), then over a glue roller, and then pressed into the cover in a sort of shallow, squared U shape. In this case, while each page is its own sheet, the collection still adds to the structural integrity of the whole - remove enough of them, and the rest will more quickly come loose...

 

If you're not addicted to hard cover, perforation is pretty easy to find in staple-bound and spiral-bound, and since they're designed for it, removing sheets won't weaken the structural integrity of what remains.

[Runnin_Ute]

Black N Red ring bound notebooks are perforated.

[TMLee]

Thanks eveyone for the suggestions I will take a look.

 

Do you have experience with that tool? If it works in journals you are my hero.

 

Yes I have one .

 

You can come up with Creative ways to use it to fit your specific journaling habits.

 

For example ,

you can make the perforations at the corner of every page, then tearing away the triangular part each time a page is filled.

Very much like some journals designed like that (I forgot which brand)

 

Yes, you can use an ordinary box cutter too, to cut away pages you want to remove.

But that is after the page is filled.

 

Perforations , however , often are there before you fill the page.

It's an option designed into the notebook.

You can buy whatever notebooks you prefer and apply these perforations on every page (rather tedious) or selected pages.

Or whatever way else you want to use it.

 

I think others here may have interesting ways of using them.

 

The advantage of using a rotary perforator is that your choice of notebook remains unaffected.

 

Just make sure the page is cut or torn away properly and not ripped out of its binding - weakening/damaging the entire binding.

 

Buy one and have fun.

Edited October 16, 2016 by TMLee