Customer Reviews

MeadŽ SpiralŽ One-Subject College-Ruled Notebook, One Notebook per Order, Color May Vary (05512)

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The notebooks aren't by any means fantastic. They have no perforations to tear the pages out, and a lot of the pages were lacking lines. Buy another kind of notebook if you can.

I love these notebooks for class. The paper is a good shade of white and they are just nice looking notebooks. Box comes with a random number of each color (yellow, red, green, turquoise, blue, and purple). Haven't been able to find these in a store anywhere.

In my company's relentless search to find the cheapest office supplies they stocked our storage room with these notebooks. The pages are tissue paper thin and the front/back covers are very flimsy. I feel a certain shame when I bring these notebooks to meetings.

Okay, there are some pretty basic reasons I use these particular notebooks. First and most importantly, they are cheap! I go through dozens upon dozens of these things a year, to the extent that cost does matter. I use them for everything...more about that later. Secondly, they are college ruled. I have a real hang up about that and have almost a phobia about using the wider ruled note books. Thirdly, the quality of the paper is what I want...it holds ink pretty well, are better than some about ink bleeding through, but most importantly, it holds simple old graphite from my pencils. The white color of the pages makes my feeble attempts at penmanship readable and does not stress my eyes in the bright sun light. For me, these notebooks are simply work horses.

Now if I were setting on the Board of Directors of a Fortune 500 company, I probably would not use these things during meetings (well, actually I would, cause I am me, but most people would not), but as I do not hold such a dubiously exalted position, and it is a pretty good bet that I never will, I need not worry about appearances in that particular setting.

I do use these things for everything else though. As I read, I take notes. I am a list maker and manically and obsessively create list of just about anything you can imagine. I have lists dating back for well over 60 years, many of which I have no clue as to what I was listing or why, but never-the-less, I have my precious lists. These books are ideal for making shopping lists, chore lists, things to do lists and more. Having different colors is a big advantage when you are a multiple list maker like me as it helps to organize things a bit. I also use these to "write things down" as I have problems with my memory at times. I wish I could say that this was because I am getting a bit long in the tooth, but that would be a lie. I have been forgetting things since I was a wee lad and learned a long time ago that it is best to write things down. I have boxes and trunks filled with old notebooks of things I was an am suppose to remember...never look at most of them of course, but they are there if I need them! I am also an obsessive drawer and these are ideal for making rough sketches and strange designs.

I like these thinner 70 page models over the thicker three or more subject ones as I tend to lose many of these notebooks and it is nicer to lose a few pages versus many pages.

I must have hundreds of these things filled from cover to cover from my school days. My children will no doubt have a wonderful burning one of these days.

Are these books a pure class act? Hardly, but they are cheap, serviceable, easy to find and extremely functional. It has been years since I felt the need to impress anyone with my writing materials (actually, that is a lie also, due to the fact that to the best of my knowledge, I have never felt this need to impress anyone as to the aspect of my life), and I seriously doubt if I will change my way as I have gotten worse about such things over the years.

This is a very good buy here on Amazon and it is good to throw a few of these things with your order so you can hit the no shipping fee zone.

I highly recommend this serviceable product.

Don Blankenship
The Ozarks

It's really just a simple, single subject notebook. With lined paper in it. Is there really anything else to say?

I only bought these because classes already started for me and I didn't have anything to take notes on, but seriously, there is no good reason for anyone to pay over a dollar for these kinds of notebooks - let alone over $3. Its nothing special, you don't even get to decide what color you're getting, and the sheets aren't perforated so tearing it out is a hassle if you want it clean and neat.

I would've given it one star because of how much they rip you off but I gave it two because its college ruled. Very generous of me I know.

Just the other day I went to Walmart and got two notebooks - for 20 cents each. They are college ruled. They have perforated sheets. The lines are as straight as the ones in these. They have the same number of pages. AND I was able to decide what color I wanted. I'm sure you can get similar deals at Office Depot or wherever other office supply is close to your home.

Just a warning that it is NOT one stack, one case - it is ONE NOTEBOOK. Boy do I feel ripped off!!

My daughter goes through about 15-20 of these notebooks a year in High School. The last time we went to a B&M store to purchase them they were out of the College Ruled ones and only had Wide Ruled, which isn't accepted in her school. I was very happy and surprised to see that Amazon had them for less than $1, so I picked up the limit of three. They are now on the list of items I will order regularly, easy enough to add to any order I'm placing to avoid shipping them on their own and causing more wasted packaging.

I ordered i think 4 70-sheet notebook spirals, and 2 100-sheet sprials from this company that sent me the wrong items from SAM'S club?? But I didnt return the 2 1oo-sheet spirals along with the 4 120-sheet spirls? because 1. I didnt feel like waiting for them any longer when I needed them for school 2. So that i wouldn't spend any more money on more page spirals at walmart or office depot so it's okay that my order got wrong. I had already ordered 70 sheet spirals of Mead from another company just in case it happened... They are nice notebooks though. Paper quality is a bit thicker than your average thin ..smearable paper if you write with pencil alot (which I don't unless its a math or number involved class)I like them.

These notebooks are the cheap version of the ones you usually see in stores. They are smaller and have much thinner covers. Go for the notebooks you can actually touch before you buy. It's definitely worth an extra 50 cents.

I bought a big bunch of these four years ago and they were excellent, better than anything I could find anywhere else.
I just bought another batch of these at the beginning of 2010 and they are AWFUL. Cheap, flimsy, exactly what all the other notebooks were like four years ago.
I've no idea what I'll be buying next, but it WON'T be these (unless someone out there is selling "Vintage" Mead Notebooks.