Yes, I am a dork.

[apocalypsos]

[Poll #911963]

I only bring this up because I stopped at Borders today, wandered into the journal section, and realized that I will buy any notebook in a heartbeat as long as it's quad-ruled. Heh.

Comments

[marginaliana]

Wide-ruled paper is an abomination.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Oh, don't even get me started on wide-ruled. If a person writes in tiny lettering like I tend to, there's all this empty space that's wasted. When I used to have the wide-ruled in high school, I'd double up on the lines of text I wrote between each blue line.

[abbylee]

Hee. Where's your option for no lines and for graph paper? Which are the two I gravitate toward.

My problem is that they also need to be bound in a certain way, as well as be the exact size I want.

[abbylee]

Okay, I read the poll three times and totally missed where you said "unlined". Sheesh, I don't know what's wrong with me.

[jacquez.livejournal.com]

bzuh? the poll I saw had options for both of those. (considers the possibility is going insane....)

[abbylee]

I misread the poll for the unlined bit, I have no idea how I managed that. But the graph paper thing was me always having heard quad-lined being applied to a specific type of graph paper *and* me misremembering which type it applied to.

I'm blaming it on my really bad day. :D

[jacquez.livejournal.com]

hee! I hate days when my brain is not working.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

"Unlined" for the blank pages and "Quad-lined" for the graph paper. :)

I love the quad-lined to pieces -- if it's got graph paper in it, I get all grabbyhands about it. There's these ones in particular that Borders sells that are graph paper with a black faux-leather cover that I adore. They hold up like crazy.

And yes, the way they're bound is also important. For example, wire binding is evil and should be destroyed.

[abbylee]

Hmm. On doing some searches, it seems that the term quad-lined is often applied to most plain-ish graph papers. But I was always given to understand that quad-lined is a specific type of graph paper. Oh well, you learn something new every day :)

[hellziggy.livejournal.com]

I think that's the same one I have. Yes, it does hold up!
If lines are good, then lines that go up and down in addition to the side to side just make it twice as good, right? :)
I'm a sucker for quad-lined too.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Dude, I have like three of them -- at least two medium-sized ones and a smaller one that I can get away with keeping at my machine at work. I saw one yesterday that's three hundred pages long and I'm thinking about picking it up and doing what my best friend did in high school -- writing a cheesy romance novel longhand just for the hell of it. :)

And hell, the lines that go up and down are great for doing notes because they make it easier to line up the indents all nice and neat. :)

[jacquez.livejournal.com]

I also prefer the pages to be perforated, but not many purse-size notebooks support this open. CURSE YOU NOTEBOOK MAKERS!

[apiphile.livejournal.com]

I don't know what any of those MEAN. Except, I like unlined because my handwriting won't obey petty things like rules and roams about the page something fierce.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Heh. Wide-ruled is the kind where the lines are spaced ridiculously far apart, college-ruled are where they're closer together, and quad-ruled is the graph paper.

And you don't have to tell me twice about wandering handwriting. That's why I get the graph paper notebooks -- it's cheating to make my story notes look more tidy. :)

[apiphile.livejournal.com]

Half my story notes get eaten by doodles. One day I will learn that stick-figures != plot development.

[tabaqui]

What does 'quad-lined' mean? I mean - a notebook for writing, divided into four parts?
*is confused*

I like *narrow* ruled, but they don't make that anymore. It's all i used to buy as a kid but now...

College is as close as it gets.

I *love* blank page journals/notebooks but my handwriting sucks without lines- it slopes all over.

But fancy paper and leather covers with little straps or ties or...!

Yes!

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Quad-lined is graph paper notebooks. Those are the ones I get -- my handwriting goes all over the place and changes from small to large and neat to sloppy and back again if I don't.

[tabaqui]

Ah ha ha. Okay. I don't like graph paper. Too *many* lines, all those bitty squares.
*squints*
*covers eyes*

I've noticed, since i've done so *much* writing on my computer, that my not-so-great handwriting has gotten much, much worse.
*sigh*

[abbylee]

If the blank page paper isn't too thick, you can always slip another paper behind it to give yourself a guide for writing in straight lines. And even better, since I always make those myself, you get to pick the width of the lines to be exactly what you want.

[tabaqui]

Yeah, you can, and i've done that. But i tend to buy blank journals with 'fancy' paper that's too thick.

I could always use my Aunt's trick of using a ruler and having the bottoms of all my letters be flat...heh.

[magickly.livejournal.com]

I have to use quad-lined paper all day at my job. I think it's busy and constraining, so I avoid it with a vengeance when I'm buying for myself. I favor wide-ruled because I have unruly, big handwriting. I guess we most like what we get to choose for ourselves?

[gentleman-lech.livejournal.com]

If I want it for writing, I prefer college-ruled like I selected (because you can't get narrow-ruled any more). But I like the quad-lined just on principle. I found this really awesome lab notebook at Staples that's quad-lined. I have yet to find an actual use for it, but I have one anyway.

And I would have liked checkboxes instead of radio buttons so I could have selected both options. But maybe that's just me being indecisive.

[newredshoes]

...since when have they stopped making narrow ruled!?

[eisoj5]

I so completely prefer college-ruled that all the wide-ruled notepads at work ARE MAKING ME CRAZY WHY CAN'T WE ORDER COLLEGE-RULED AAAAAAUGH

...ahem. Anyway. The margins are nice and wide for doodling, though.

[spyderqueen.livejournal.com]

Honestly? I'm fond of steno pads.

oh also

[jacquez.livejournal.com]

I use unlined 5x8 index cards as my usual note-taking device at work, and unlined 3x5 index cards + minipostits to organize myself for running focus groups.

Notebooks are for carryin' about in my purse for personal stuff.

[unperfectwolf.livejournal.com]

So, I really don't LIKE wide rule, but after the number of times I've had to deal with NO RULE I'm all for ANY LINES EVER. My favorite, most sought after (and easily found) notebooks are traditional college-ruled comp books, because spirals SUCK ASS, but really, I'm not so picky these days. Just... lines... please for the love of the tv... LINES!

[cipster.livejournal.com]

Quad ruled rocks. I use those little Moleskine notebooks that have the elastic to keep them closed. They fit perfectly in my white coat pocket and I use them constantly.

[marinwood.livejournal.com]

What you call "quad-ruled" I call "grid," and yes, they rule. I'm a sucker for anything Clairefontaine. So pretty!

[irishblessing.livejournal.com]

Wide ruled paper is an abomination. Hate it, hate it, hate it. I'd rather write on bark. I like narrow ruled, and college is a close as it gets. My handwriting tends to fill up the entirety of the space between the lines, so the smaller the rule is, the smaller my text is.

..I honestly don't like graph paper all that much, but it's not as deep-seated as my hatred for wide ruled is ;)

[katbcoll.livejournal.com]

I didn't realize that I do buy only college-ruled notebooks until now. Sheesh.

I don't use quad-lined unless I'm charting a knitting design.

[tenebris.livejournal.com]

College ruled all the way, man. I have wide-ruled notebooks that I'll never use because I abhor the amount of white space I leave behind (or I double up on the lines, but that takes a certain kinda pen sometimes.) When we had to write lab reports, it took a great and concentrated effort not to write them with three lines to a space, because those spaces are even bigger.

These days, my notebook buying choices are restricted by a) does it have colored pages or colored tabs, for easy organization of various ideas? and b) is it ring bound or something else, 'cause with the way I write, ring binding is gonna be necessary or I feel like I'm hurting the book. (Weird? Uh, a bit.) But man, I am a SUCKER for color coding. Also, those cheap notebooks with the "inspirational" sayings have something to them, 'cause one of mine held up over a year and got scribbled alll over.

[ladysorka]

Honestly, what I really want is narrow-ruled, the kind that's even smaller than college, but it's virtually impossible to find.

I've pretty much given up and gone for college.

[manynames.livejournal.com]

I am a whore for the big unlined Moleskine notebooks and since starting to use them, cannot write on lined paper at all. Doesn't stop me from buying notebooks that use it, of course!

[girlwiththebook.livejournal.com]

*hangs head in shame* i dont know what quad lined is.