Cambridge college-ruled stiff-backed writing pads are no more

[ek-hornbeck]

I've been using Mead Cambridge stiff-backed, 70-page, college-ruled writing pads for about thirty years. (They're SKU 59872.) They're great. They nailed the small details. The heavy top cover is scored at two places to make it wrap easily around to the back of the pad when one is using it. The pages are pre-punched for a three-hole binder. The college ruling is just right for me. The 20lb paper is pretty nice -- it's not 24lb Top Docket Diamond 25% cotton almost-stationery, but it's quite good and it's real-deal US 8.5"x11" format, which fits into my American life better than European or Japanese paper. (And it's a heckuva lot cheaper than Docket Diamond pads.) The strong, stiff cardboard back is great and the whole thing travels in my daypack pretty robustly. I've gotten a lot of research done on these pads.

 

So... Mead has discontinued them. I got onto a chat session with a human on Mead's web site, who confirmed: gone.

 

This sucks.

 

EKH

[inkstainedruth]

I know how you feel.  

I'm not sure what I'm going to do for journaling once I'm down to the last A5 600 page Miquelrius soft cover journal because I looked on their website a few years ago and they'd stopped making that size....  And when you're doing "morning pages" and writing 3 pages a day first thing every morning, even THOSE were being gone through at a fair clip (more than 2 full ones per year).

And the first time I got some I ordered a bunch (more than a dozen, as I recall) directly from their US distributor.... 

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[dbs]

Probably you have never realized that you are already a dinosaur at the year of very few people typing --  and you are still writing, with ink, pen and real paper etc.

 

I can promise you, for the sake of Charles Darwin, you will eventually evolute, in hard way,  to a chicken -- has two wings, has two legs, and of course, can fly like a dinosaur if you are really feel in danger. But, in stead of sitting in a museum, most of time, you will lie on my dishes --- the cost of refusing to evolute with rest of the world.

 

You don't need Mead.