I used to think that all paper was basically the same but it is not! This paper is very different. While it looks feels and smells like regular paper it is not regular paper at all. Case and point: I put a stack of this paper into a machine pressed a button on my computer and the paper got sucked into the machine and then when it came back out of the machine it was no longer pure white! It had letters and numbers all over it! I don't know how they do it maybe magic?!