I bought 3 of these. One was fine. The other two had rings that didn’t close properly. Nice notebook but for that price two out of three should not be defective. Guess I learned my lesson to check ALL binders before buying.
Written by a customer while visiting Staples
Customer Rating
4
Pricey but sturdy get multiple years
on September 18, 2013
Posted by: Paula K.
These binders are very sturdy. My kids have used them for multiple years at school. My only real complaint is that the front clear plastic rips too easily. Other than the front plastic ripping the binder really holds up. Rings keep lining up well year after year.
I searched the shelves at my local Staples for a binder that would take pages longer than 10.5". I needed a binder that could hold 220 pages 11.5" long by 8.25" wide from a bound textbook that came unglued. The Better Binder attracted me with its D-style rings sturdy build fold-over flexibility and mechanically attached locking lever. The metal lever at the bottom end of the 3-ring mechanism limits the binder to pages 10.5" long. I bent the mechanically attached lever back and down with a pliers until it popped out of the 3-ring mechanism. The mechanism now opens and closes by manually pulling the two-halves of the center ring open or pushing them together to close. I carefully separated the pages from the book binding fabric and used a standard 3-hole punch (a few pages at a time) so they fit the binder's 3-ring positions. The textbook's soft front and back covers and all pages easily fit on the 3-ring mechanism and I can flip through the pages more easily now than when the textbook was bound. The 11.5" long pages do not protrude beyond the binder covers.