I buy these notebooks often and use them for school. They are cheap and the perfect size. The colors are fun and I have one in just about every color. The only thing that I would change is the wire binding. These bend easily and look cheap. I would replace the wire binding with black plastic spiral binding that staples uses at the copy and print center to bind my school projects. I often remove the metal spiral out of the notebooks and replace them with the black plastic spir binding because it looks better and is cheaper than the metal rings therefore staples can profit off of these more as well.
As a teacher I find this product very useful and durable. Daily assignments are entered by individual students and are an important part of their grade. They have the opportunity to be creative or open and vulnerable or crazy with off the wall humor. This is private and an opportunity to boost creative skills and requires due diligence of daily effort.
A bit retro but I like jotting down notes working out essays or fiction on paper. Good margins the lines don't distract from writing and the paper feels good to write on with gel or ballpoint. Very handy.
I have a class of 20 kids and I buy about 30 of these each semester for them to use. A lot of my students forget their notebooks at home and this way they can borrow one and then tear out the pages they've used and leave the rest to be used by another student. They're not the highest quality notebooks in the world but hey- they're cheap and I'm buying these on my own dime.
These note books are being used for note taking for several webinars I have signed up for. They are handy to have and they are working well for me. Thanks