I use these for work and my children use them for school. They are hauled in and out of backpacks stuffed in lockers opened and closed hundreds of times and stuffed to the limit. These binders take a beating and the keep on doing their job. My kids went through 2 traditional binders per class per year prior to finding these. These last for several years. We had one where the rubber began to tear and another where the rings stopped meeting up flush. Staples exchanged them without any fuss. My only complaint is that the clear view plastic covers tear off after a few months of being pulled in and out of backpacks and lockers. The other thing to be aware of is the rubber edges. They aid in durability but they do make it more difficult to pull in and out of a bag or our of a pile. They can be a pro or a con depending on your personal preferences. Overall I love these.
This is a great binder! It's almost perfect but it needs to be able to hold three writing instruments a pen pencil and highlighter and a calculator. I'm a college student and I have many books to carry for my daily classes it would be greatly appreciated to have a binder that also can hold a pen pencil highlighter and a calculator built into the binder. This would be very ergonomically pleasing imagine going to class opening your binder and everything you need for class is at your fingertips right in your binder no fumbling in your pockets or backpack for a pen or calculator.
I have always used the Avery binder product with good success. Staples had a trade in offer with $2.00 credit promotion so I decided to give this one a try. Call me surprised means I had no real expectation either high or low when I bought this binder but when I substituted it for the one I was using for one project I found it had greater capacity and better durability. Another feature I found to my liking is the front binder outside view page is exactly the size of letter paper and my customized display page fit right in and there fitting snugly with no ability to wander as had been the case in other similar binders.