Apr
07
2010
Mead Composition Book, One Wide-Ruled Notebook with 100 Sheets, Black Marble
Posted by Blogmaster in Home Office Supplies, tags: Black, Book, Composition, Marble, Mead, Notebook, Sheets, WideRuled
- Wide Ruled
- White Paper
- 100 pages
Product Description
Classic comp book design features 100 sheets of wide ruled, white paper. The class schedule on the inside front cover, and the multiplication table, conversion table, and grammar tips on the inside back cover are tailored to today’s busy students. Durable cover with secure sewn binding ensures long-lasting value.
Mead Composition Book, One Wide-Ruled Notebook with 100 Sheets, Black Marble
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This is a good general product for schoolwork, etc. I have used them for years as a personal journal. Recently Mead changed the cover and uses a thinner cardboard so they are not as sturdy as they once were. Otherwise they’d recieve an excellent.
Rating: 3 / 5
The notebook:
The notebook is 100 sheets and it is wide ruled. I find thease handy for everything from a personal notebook to use for school or work. The covers are realatively sturdy, unlike spiral notebooks. The drawback is that you can’t rip out pages, because The notebook is bound together by a sturdy thread.
All in all this notebook comes in handy for any purpose or any person.
Rating: 5 / 5
The pages are really thin; you can see the ink through more than one page. The cover is also kind of thin. If you need a cheap – low quality notebook for nothing important then this is for you.
Rating: 1 / 5
The 09910 Mead Composition Notebook is an excellent notebook.
What’s odd is the current pricing on Amazon for offerings by third parties. It turns out that while the listed price per notebook is low, say $1.50, the shipping price per notebook is $5.00-$8.00. The kicker is that shipping costs don’t go down if you buy in bulk: you still pay $5.00-$8.00 per notebook if you buy 10 notebooks. You’ll pay as much or more for “shipping” as you will for the listed price of the notebook. Bottom line: the “listed” price is used to draw you in, but the vendor makes their profit in the “shipping charges”.
I’ve found that the best pricing that includes shipping is around $3.00-$3.50 per notebook with shipping included, if you buy in bulk (e.g. 10 notebooks at once).
Nothing wrong or illegal being done here. But the vendor (and implicitly Amazon) are not necessarily giving you the best value. You still need to shop around.
Rating: 5 / 5
Why would anyone want to review such a prosaic and commom thing as a composition book that must be used in every classroom in America (you ask)?
Well, as a writer and editor, I must write out most of my scripts in longhand. Call me old school, but that is how a book gets made – do the drafts in notebooks such as these sturdy and dependable composition books by Mead, and then transpose to the computer via a program like MS Word.
I must fill up 6-8 of these every year – for daily journaling; for research notes for an upcoming book; for the actual draft of say, a work of fiction; and for any miscellaneous task that comes along. I wait for Back-to-School sales in August so that the unit cost is sometimes as low as 3 for a buck. Hey, can’t beat that value. Even at full retail, these little babies are still a bargain.
Thank you to Mead Corp. for providing the materials for my creative enterprises. I would still be back in the caveman era using a stick in the sand if it wasn’t for such a great product.
One of the best values still around in our hyper-inflated era. Give ‘em at try!
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Rating: 5 / 5