My son uses these books for note taking in high school. He uses a different color for each subject and gets a colored folder to match each copybook. He loves the color coding system for each subject. We also find that these notebooks have just the right amount of pages to last the whole year in most subjects. They last through the everyday wear in his schoolbag and come out at the end of the school year with a few ragged edges on the cover but still intact. Pretty impressive.